Enthusiasm Quotes

1022 Enthusiasm quotes by 725 unique authors

In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature for… — Gustave Flaubert
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me… — Paulo Coelho
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity. — Henry David Thoreau
I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was… — David Sedaris
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and… — Pema Chodron
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person,… — Antonio Tabucchi
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm… — James E. Faust
We were discussing a grisly double murder and Rodriguez was telling us all this in the same sort of conversational tone a person might use… — Janet Evanovich
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't… — John Steinbeck
Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit,… — Paulo Coelho
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object… — Elwyn Brooks White
Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it… — Antonin Sertillanges
...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That… — Dale Carnegie
Seeing a patter doesn't mean you know how to put it all together. Take baby steps: don't focus on the folks whose skills are far… — Kate Jacobs
No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship… — Oswald Chambers
we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle… — Paulo Coelho
The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie.… — Aleister Crowley
One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common… — Joel Osteen
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. — Jane Austen
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me. — Jenny Downham
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though… — John Muir
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight, and your enthusiasm… — Natalie Clifford Barney
Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished. — Swami Vivekananda
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake… — Oscar Wilde

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