Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 2

• When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

  Madame de Stael

  Undone, Money And Power, Ridicule

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

  Madame de Stael

  Beautiful, Sweet, Character

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• There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Men, Melancholy

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.70

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• Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Powerful, Enemy, Ridicule

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.260

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• Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Religious, Political, Liberty

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.68

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• Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from Sep 01, 2013

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• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Teacher

  "The New York World-Telegram and Sun" Newspaper, 1961.

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• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Positive, Graduation

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Basketball, Dream

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Education, Enthusiasm For Life, Succeed

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• Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Positive, Contagious

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

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• The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

  Madame de Stael

  Greek, Definitions

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

  Ella Maillart

  Running, Imagination, Routine

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• No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

  William Cowper

  Half, World, Possessed

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• The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  People, World, England

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Careers, People, Giving

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• The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world, but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success.

  William Howard Arnold

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Photography, Enthusiasm For Life, Color

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• Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Passion, Ideas

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 17, 2011

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• If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good ideas to share. Most importantly, however, it is young people who will be inheriting the problems which have been left to them by the generations past.

  Marc Kielburger

  Past, Ideas, People

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• He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Summer, Struggle, Cricket Match

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• Practice being excited.

  Bill Foster

  Practice, Excited

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• The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

  Frank Dobson

  Drinking, Government, People

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• Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fire, Inspire, Soul

  'La Nouvelle Hèloise' (1761, ed. M. Launay, 1967) pt. 2, letter 11

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