Enthusiasm Quotes

• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Enthusiasm For Life

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

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• Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

  Henry Chester

  Passion, Enthusiasm For Life, Action

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Essays "Circles" (1841)

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• No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

  James Anthony Froude

  Feet, Age, Twenties

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• Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

  Gordon Parks

  Electricity

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• While we are focusing on fear, worry or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Happiness, Attitude, Fear

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• Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.

  Gail Sher

  Breaths

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Design, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

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• Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Fall, Winning

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• Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.

  John Knox

  Art, Views, Practice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 208, 1895.

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• The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

  Peter Agre

  Cells, Energy, Biology

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• I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Writing, Thinking, Passionate

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• I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

  Trevor Nunn

  People, Doubt, Pieces

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• Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

  Dale Carnegie

  Cash, Sells

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• What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Feelings, Knows

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

  Walter Annenberg

  Easy, Intrigue, Interest

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• Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Perseverance, Progress, Months

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• Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?

  Katharine Hepburn

  Vitality, Pursuit

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• Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Service Culture, Matter, Reason

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• The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Success, Taken, Heart

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• The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

  Ann Wigmore

  Keys, Way, Clue

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• Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Strong, Pain

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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