Enthusiasm Quotes · Page 22

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

“One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

— Knute Rockne

When St-Pierre retired, it brought a lot of enthusiasm to the weight class, and things got shook up.

— Robbie Lawler

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

— Salvador Bernal

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

— Swami Vivekananda

Excellent wine generates enthusiasm. And whatever you do with enthusiasm is generally successful.

— Philippe de Rothschild

During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and…

— Adam Riess

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when…

— Angela Merkel

Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms…

— Eliphas Levi

There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go…

— James Taylor

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just…

— Wayne Dyer

The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each…

— Pope John Paul II

I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole…

— Gary Lineker

Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said. “Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement. “Mom,” Piper said with no enthusiasm. “Girls!” The goddess spread her arms like she…

— Rick Riordan

I really put my heart and soul into everything and I don't want a project that doesn't feel real to me or…

— Paul Feig

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but…

— James E. Faust

1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway.…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens…

— Keith K. Hilbig

The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you…

— Hal Elrod

People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do…

— Ann Patchett

Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole…

— Florence Nightingale

Being Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm was the best thing to happen to Larry David in life.

— Larry David

Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of…

— Democritus

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

— Herbert Croly

Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

— Thomas J. Watson

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.

— Michael Beckwith

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

— Chris Martin

I think if you put 100% into anything and you do it with authenticity and enthusiasm, then it really shines through.

— Robert Rinder

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

— John Sterling

Sometimes good work is done with passion, enthusiasm - presence can be as valuable as many millions of pounds.

— Gianfranco Zola

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

— Osbert Lancaster

You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.

— Lionel Tiger

“something desperate, something ecstatic, some transference of, yes, energy”

— Nickolas Butler

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson