Enthusiasm Quotes
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So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Joyce Cary
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The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.
Michael LeBoeuf
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Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
Eric Garcetti
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I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.
Woodrow Wyatt
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Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
William Feather
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He saw at once that the crowd “was filled with whooping enthusiasm and every kind of whiskey,” and that a riot might ensue if either camp felt slighted.
Edmund Morris
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a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
Stella Benson
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Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But this new enthusiasm finally caused us some trouble, and it suffices to say, if I remember correctly, that it was in this way that my thoughts turned to the young maidens.
Hans Bellmer
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Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
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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.
Norman Vincent Peale
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There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never.
Ryan Adams
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The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
Ray Bradbury
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I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.
Nick Bantock
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You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself.
Ray Bradbury
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This year's marathon weekend turned an exciting corner in terms of participation and enthusiasm.
Nancy Lieberman
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.
Sean Connery
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I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.
Ray Bradbury
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Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
Hector Hugh Munro
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In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.
Stuart Wilde
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Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.
Ernest Holmes
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Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.
Harry Houdini