Enthusiasm Quotes · Page 47

Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best…

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Erich Fromm

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic…

— Henry Villard

I always say that I can help someone who can already compose, but if they can't, I can't help them. I can…

— George Benjamin

In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.

— Stuart Wilde

I have a great amount of enthusiasm, and I am a man who knows how to do this job inside out because…

— Sam Allardyce

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are…

— Ray Bradbury

I think I have the ability to be athletic on both ends of the floor, so I just need to go out…

— Gerald Green

Be careful about a policy generated with enthusiasm in the rush of a moment. It usually doesn't turn out well.

— Daniel Fried

I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

— Moby

The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is…

— Mao Zedong

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Florence Nightingale

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

— James Salter

This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at…

— Paul Bloom

Enthusiasm creates an inspirational environment for uplifting moral and spirit to a new high.

— Anil Sinha

“The pursuit of excellence with unrestrained passion can lead to the accomplishment of wonders with unsurpassed joy.”

— Aberjhani

Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep…

— Wilhelm Reich

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Often my enthusiasm of a topic, supercedes the time needed to execute what my mind is so eager to do.

— Rodney Miller

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

Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with…

— Edward Jenks