Eagerness Quotes

• I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

  Zane Grey

  Lying, Knowing, Achievement

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• But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Pain, Live Life

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2488, Delphi Classics

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• If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.

  Kano Jigoro

  Accomplishment, Effort, Martial Arts

  "Black Belt: Judo Skills and Techniques". Book by Neil Ohlenkamp, p. 36, 2006.

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• The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jobs, Procrastination, Zest

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• Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.

  Radhanath Swami

  Giving, Enthusiasm, Devotional

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• The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Lying, Yoga

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.110, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Patience, Loss, Greed

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• If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Views, Honor, Wish

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• Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Two, Elements

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• Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Speed, Slow Down, Bits

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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• Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

  Susan Sontag

  Vitality, Attention

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• Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Honor, Enthusiasm, Sin

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• Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Fun, Underdog

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• I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Eye, Secret, Wonder

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.46, Powell Publications, LLC

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• But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam

  Drake

  Humble, Rapper, Hip Hop

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• 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, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Baseball, Determination, Discipline

  Albert Goodwill Spalding, Samm Coombs (1991). “America's national game: historic facts concerning the beginning evolution, development, and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories, and its votaries”

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• There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Community, Care

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.228

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• She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Men, Order

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• When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Past, Fire, Generosity

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• They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

  Sutton Foster

  Success, Broken Heart, Dream

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• All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Want

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• There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Two, Curiosity

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• Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.

  Florence King

  Sex, Mean, Race

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• In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Adventure, Childhood

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.816, Hamilton Books

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