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

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Baldwin, James

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

People who never get carried away should be.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Chester, Henry

Enthusiasm is contagious.You can start an epidemic.

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

No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.

O'Brian, John Lord

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

Channing, William Ellery

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

France, Anatole

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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.

Archbold, Ralph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Arnold, H. W.

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

Pele

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Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match!

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Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.

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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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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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If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Cowper, William

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National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Tuckerman

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

Stalker, James

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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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Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

Wesley, John

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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 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. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.

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Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever.

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Enthusiasm is the Spirit of God working with you.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius