Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 33

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

  Carlos Santana

  Planets, Contagious

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• The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.

  John McPhee

  Church, Affection, Week

  John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.22, Macmillan

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• The message delivered with unrelenting enthusiasm by our culture is, 'You can be happy without discipline.  Do whatever you feel like doing and you will be happy!' While the Church says, 'You cannot be happy without discipline In fact, discipline is the path to happiness!'

  Matthew Kelly

  Discipline, Church, Culture

  Matthew Kelly (2002). “Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose”, p.195, BookBaby

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• When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

  Martha Beck

  Passion, Dangerous World, Choices

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• It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We’ll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.

  Tim Ryan

  Kindness, Heart, Small Acts

  Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.31, Hay House, Inc

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• The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

  George A. Smith

  Strong, Temptation, Spirit

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• There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

  Robert Anthony

  Anxiety, Lines, Nudge

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.149, Morgan James Publishing

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• If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.

  Carlos Santana

  Heart, Inspired, Planets

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• God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

  John Piper

  Names, Missionary, Ministry

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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• The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Holy Days, Years

  "How To De-Stress This Holiday Season" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

  John Newton

  Imagination, Venture, Scripture

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• If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Purpose, Guarantees

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.53, Rodale

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• A short-lived fascination with another person may be exciting-I think we've all seen people aglow, in a state of being "in love with love"-but such an attraction is not sustainable over the long run. Paradoxically, human love is sanctified not in the height of attraction and enthusiasm, but in the everyday struggles of living with another person. It is not in romance but in routine that the possibilities for transformation are made manifest. And that requires commitment.

  Kathleen Norris

  Love, Running, Struggle

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.62, Paulist Press

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• Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.

  Bob Richards

  Giving, Goal, Energy

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• A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.

  Pam Brown

  Cat, Fighting, Men

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• I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

  Jim Evans

  Games, Energy, High Standards

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• I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

  William Joyce

  Jobs, Kids, Unhappy

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• The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

  James Larkin

  Determination, Class, Goal

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• Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

  James Caan

  Success, Winning, Way

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• That’s why you have to write your book right now, if that’s what you want to do. If you wait until you have the time, and the security, you might not want to do it. You’re in a race against your own enthusiasm. Don’t put it off because someone told you it’s never too late. That’s the worst lie. It’s never too late today, but it’s often too late tomorrow.

  Stephen Elliott

  Lying, Book, Writing

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• Oh heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm - that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!

  John Osborne

  Voice, Long, Heaven

  'Look Back in Anger' (1956) act 1

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• Even when I was on Curb Your Enthusiasm I wasn't this "over-the-top" crazy character. It was still kind of play it straight but it was funny because the situation was funny. That's kind of how I portrayed things and I like dramas; I like to be able to - because in dramas you can laugh and joke and still be serious, be real. I like the realism of them.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Crazy, Real, Drama

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Effort, Balance

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Car, Police, Motorcycle

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• The most attractive thing that I've seen in the creative realm is the enthusiasm in people that does not seem to burn out. That's what I'm after.

  Blake Mills

  Attractive Things, People, Creative

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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