Motivational Quotes

Enthusiasm

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Enthusiasm

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

Chrysler, Walter

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Enthusiasm moves the world.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 is contagious.You can start an epidemic.

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Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

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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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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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National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Tuckerman

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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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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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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: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.

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

Arnold, H. W.

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Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever.

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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Channing, William Ellery

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People who never get carried away should be.