Enthusiasm Quotes · Page 33

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

— Federico Fellini

Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of…

— Kwame Nkrumah

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

— Vincent Van Gogh

As a studious schoolgirl, I'd go back into the classroom every autumn brimming with enthusiasm.

— Susanna Reid

I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.

— John Gierach

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

— Madame de Stael

“Display your passion, and others will be inspired. Enthusiasm is contagious.”

— Del Suggs

Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.

— Eric Garcetti

If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may…

— Darren LaCroix

When they have you in the short-arm scissor, they keep you in it for quite a while, and you're fighting to get…

— Bob Backlund

Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness; it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only…

— Madame de Stael

Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself,…

— Angela Carter

The difference between mediocre, good and great is you're able to have the enthusiasm for prep, to work to prepare to win…

— Brad Stevens

That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as…

— Thomas Jefferson

Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization…

— B. C. Forbes

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages.…

— Samuel Smiles

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even…

— Ralph Cavanagh

What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead…

— Andre Breton

One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social…

— Astra Taylor

We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Life just gets better when enthusiasm befriends inspiration and turns the mundane into a chemistry of excitement. Whether by the grace of…

— Brian Edward Arsenault

There's a version of Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] that I think could be heightened. Trying…

— Elijah Wood

Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part…

— Virpi Hameen-Anttila

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

— Elmer Bernstein

Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice…

— Brian Tracy

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.

— Winston Churchill

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and…

— Edmund Hillary

“Inspiration is that little spark that comes at night to set our souls ablaze.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

— Ivan Turgenev

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

— William Bolitho

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

— Noam Chomsky

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

— Erich Fromm

There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.

— Deepak Chopra

“Always be enthusiastic and hopeful. If you lose hope, there is nothing to look forward to.”

— Debasish Mridha

No matter how you try to muster up energy, effort and enthusiasm, some nights, some practices, you just don't have it.

— Mark Jackson

“His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

— Jon Gordon

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice…

— John Frankenheimer