Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

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

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• I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Future
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • You
  • Enthusiasm
  • Fired

• The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Real
  • Success
  • Enthusiasm

• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Interesting

• There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • She
  • Energy
  • Enthusiasm

• Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Balance
  • Changes
  • Enthusiasm

• I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Life
  • Game
  • Enthusiasm

• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Spirit
  • Genius
  • Enthusiasm

• The enthusiasm was based on pure love and love of what we were doing.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Doing
  • Enthusiasm
  • Pure Love

• Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Internet
  • Sunset
  • Significance

• I just have an enthusiasm for life.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Enthusiasm
  • Enthusiasm For Life

• As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • American
  • Enthusiasm
  • British

• A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Space
  • Significance
  • Spacious

• The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Literature

• The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

  

  Edward M. Purcell
  • Important
  • Value
  • Significance

• Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Enthusiasm
  • Engine
  • Steam

• every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Silent

• Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Enthusiasm

• Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • Enthusiasm
  • Obsession
  • Restless

• I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Fanatic

• Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fields
  • Towns
  • Goblin

• He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Wall
  • Impossible

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

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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