Contagious Quotes - Page 5

• And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.

  Brom

  Laughing, Devil, Peter

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• Emotion is contagious.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Entrepreneur, Emotion

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• Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

  Kevin Heath

  Kindness, Kids, Parenting

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• both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

  Kathryn Schulz

  Doubt, Common, Cold

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• Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism.

  Mark Hart

  Christian, Atheism, Enthusiasm

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• Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

  Brian Houston

  Goal, Leader, Down The Road

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015

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• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

  Marva Collins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

  Tom Hayden

  Style, Crime, Officials

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

  Carlos Santana

  Enthusiasm, Planets

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• It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Feeling Beautiful, Feels

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Local Girls”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she knows that the Authority are the only people who might be able to help him.” “Or kill him,” I said. “That too. What is life without risk?” “Long?” Terric laughed, a sort of high whooping that made me—and Zayvion, much to my surprise—smile. Contagious. For all he had a serious exterior, Terric was the guy you’d want to sit next to at a funny movie, just to hear him laugh.

  Devon Monk

  Ideas, Long, People

  "Magic on the Storm". Book by Devon Monk, 2010.

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• Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Epidemics, Taste, Wellness

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• Floote, what is going on? Do they think I am contagious? Should I assure them I was born with a nose this size?

  Gail Carriger

  Thinking, Noses, Size

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Long, People, Generosity

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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• optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Fall, Adversity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

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• A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Spring, Comforting, Acquaintance

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Mindsets are contagious. So choose the people you populate your life with extremely well.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Mindset, Wells

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 22, 2012

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• Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

  Betty Williams

  Courage

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• Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

  John Ortberg

  Leader, Pessimism

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• Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Fun, People, Contentment

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• Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Garden, Air

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 23, 2016

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• Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

  Max Anders

  Discouragement

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• Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

  David McCullough

  Ideas, Leader, Shows

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• Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.

  Heinz Hopf

  Decision, Might, Habit

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• Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Benefits

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