Enthusiasm Quotes

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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell
Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself. — William Blake
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an… — William Hazlitt
Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. — Edwin Way Teale
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm. — Agnes Repplier
Enthusiasm is a divine possession. — Margaret Sanger
I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more… — Claude Monet
What is man but his passion? — Robert Penn Warren
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity. — John Jay Chapman
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
Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed. — Francis Picabia
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced… — Alain de Botton
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance.… — Cennino Cennini
There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week… — James Taylor
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd? — Joanna Baillie
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its… — F L Lucas
Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else. — Daniel Goleman
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
I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm. — Robert Lowell
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent… — Giorgio Vasari
National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success,… — Albert Goodwill Spalding
Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but… — Walter J. Phillips

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