Enthusiasm Quotes
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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watson, Sr)
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner. (Quote by - Ann Wigmore)
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions. (Quote by - Nicolas de Chamfort)
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action. (Quote by - Henry Chester)
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool. (Quote by - William McFee)
Success is due less to ability than to zeal. (Quote by - Charles Buxton)
He did it with all his heart, and prospered. (Quote by - Bible)
Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it? (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
Exuberance is beauty. (Quote by - William Blake)
Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead. (Quote by - James Caan)
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. (Quote by - Edward B. Butler)
Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present. (Quote by - Robert Conklin)
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. (Quote by - Reggie Leach)
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can! (Quote by - George Matthew Adams)
For every sale you miss you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy. (Quote by - Thomas Arnold)
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. (Quote by - Claude Helvetius)
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest. (Quote by - Paul J. Meyer)
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. (Quote by - L. E. Landon)
You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work. (Quote by - Susanna Clark)
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. (Quote by - Ernest Newman)
No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. (Quote by - Marie Beynon Ray)
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
Enthusiasm signifies God in us. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Energy is equal to desire and purpose. (Quote by - Sheryl Adams)
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. (Quote by - Margery Allingham)
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. (Quote by - Gordon Parks)
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is. (Quote by - Catfish Hunter)
Promise yourself to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. (Quote by - Christian Larson)
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre. (Quote by - David Sarnoff)
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed "dignity" to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up! (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. (Quote by - Christian Dior)
Enthusiasm moves the world. (Quote by - Arthur James Balfour)
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. (Quote by - Christian Bovee)
Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough. (Quote by - Paul J. Meyer)
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. (Quote by - Pele)
To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy. (Quote by - Thomas A. Buckner)
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home-if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful. (Quote by - Donald M. Kendall)
Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. (Quote by - Thomas Eakins)
Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Quote by - Watterson Lowe)
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. (Quote by - Anatole France)
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
A willing heart adds feather to the heel. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. (Quote by - Sheila Graham)
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. (Quote by - Chris Evert)
What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done. (Quote by - Arland Gilbert)
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. (Quote by - David V. A. Ambrose)
He fights with spirit as well as with the sword. (Quote by - Latin proverb)
I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. (Quote by - Charles Schwab)
Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life. (Quote by - Edward B. Butler)
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. (Quote by - Charles Buxton)
If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player. (Quote by - Pete Rose)
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. (Quote by - Edwin Way Teale)
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
No man who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it. (Quote by - Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot)
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane. (Quote by - Charles Lindbergh)
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. (Quote by - General Douglas MacArthur)
Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. (Quote by - Conrad Hilton)
It is not opposition but indifference which separates men. (Quote by - Mary Parker Follett)
To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. (Quote by - Walter Pater)
There is only one big thing-desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. (Quote by - Oswald Chambers)
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. (Quote by - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)
What I do best is share my enthusiasm. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Quote by - Colette)
Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. (Quote by - Ivern Ball)
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. (Quote by - Arnold J. Toynbee)
As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. (Quote by - Bebe Moore Campbell)
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be - enthusiasm. (Quote by - Bruce Barton)
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour. (Quote by - Louisa Thomas)
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null. (Quote by - F. L. Lucas)
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd? (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness. (Quote by - Christina Stead)
Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)
What is man but his passion? (Quote by - Robert Penn Warren)
My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future. (Quote by - E. M. Cioran)
Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful. (Quote by - Edward L. Curtis)
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. (Quote by - John Wesley)
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr)
People who never get carried away should be. (Quote by - Malcolm Forbes)
Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it. (Quote by - Joe Knapp)
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
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. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk. (Quote by - Harry F. Banks)
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
The real difference between men is energy. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. (Quote by - Marshal Ferdinand Foch)
Nothing ever great was achieved without enthusiasm. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. (Quote by - General George S. Patton)
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed, but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. (Quote by - Bliss Carman)
Give me a man who sings at his work. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. (Quote by - Henry Truman)
When enthusiasm is inspired by reason; controlled by caution; sound in theory; practical in application; reflects confidence; spreads good cheer; raises morale; inspires associates; arouses loyalty; and laughs at adversity, it is beyond price. (Quote by - Coleman Cox)
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life? (Quote by - Louis Auchincloss)
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. (Quote by - Julia Child)
The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart. (Quote by - Mencius)
Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious. (Quote by - Virgil)
Whena person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
Act enthusiastic and you become enthusiastic. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. (Quote by - Charles M. Schwab)
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might. (Quote by - Cicero)
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. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat. (Quote by - Hannah Moore)
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. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. (Quote by - C. Malesherbez)
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth. (Quote by - Christian Morgenstern)
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller, M. D)
Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm. (Quote by - Judith Krantz)
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. (Quote by - Nicholas Murray Butler)
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. (Quote by - George Hegel)
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. (Quote by - Arthur James Balfour)
It is energy, the central element of which is will, that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. It is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
Energy and persistence conquer all things. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm. (Quote by - Henry Moore)
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost. (Quote by - Buddha)
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. (Quote by - Isaac Disraeli)
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. (Quote by - Sir Edward Appleton)
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. (Quote by - Margareth II, Queen of Denmark)
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives. (Quote by - Walter Chrysler)
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. (Quote by - Thomas N. Carruther)
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't fake. (Quote by - P. D. James)
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. (Quote by - Louis Simpson)
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. (Quote by - Mae West)
Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous. (Quote by - Corita Kent)
Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)
Zeal will do more than knowledge. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. (Quote by - Charles A. Cerami)
Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Put some in! (Quote by - David Starr Jordan)
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
