Motivational Quotes

Enthusiasm

He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.

- I Ching

Best Quotes about Enthusiasm

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

Stalker, James

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.

Chester, Henry

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.

Archbold, Ralph

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Stael, Germaine De

Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.

Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice.

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Enthusiasm is the Spirit of God working with you.

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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

Seabury, David

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Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Antrim, Minna

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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

Pele

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Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.

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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Ford, Henry

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The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

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The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

Chrysler, Walter

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Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Waitley, Denis

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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

Froude, James A.

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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Day, Clarence

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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Smiles, Samuel

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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

Cowper, William

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It is energy -- the central element of which is will -- that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

Smiles, Samuel

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Enthusiasm moves the world.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.

Leach, Reggie

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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present.

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No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.

O'Brian, John Lord

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The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

Arnold, H. W.

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People who never get carried away should be.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Mandino, Og

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

France, Anatole

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Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Enthusiasm is contagious.You can start an epidemic.

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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Nightingale, Earl

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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

Akhenaton

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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Edwards, Tryon

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Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever.

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Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

Hilton, Conrad

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National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Tuckerman