Motivational Quotes

Enthusiasm

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

- Pele

Best Quotes about Enthusiasm

1.

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

Arnold, H. W.

2.

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

Day, Clarence

3.

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.

4.

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

Channing, William Ellery

5.

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

Cowper, William

6.

No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.

O'Brian, John Lord

7.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

8.

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.

9.

The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

Chrysler, Walter

10.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Carnegie, Dale

11.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

Edwards, Tryon

13.

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.

14.

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

Seabury, David

15.

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.

16.

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

Hilton, Conrad

17.

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

18.

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

Lombardi, Vince

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

23.

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

Stalker, James

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

26.

People who never get carried away should be.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

27.

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

28.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

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

Pele

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Leach, Reggie

33.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Balfour, Arthur James

34.

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

35.

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.

Archbold, Ralph

36.

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

Antrim, Minna

37.

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

38.

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.