Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 4

• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Confidence

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• I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

  Brad Bird

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• I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.

  Richard Estes

  Real, Thinking, Done

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• Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.

  N. C. Wyeth

  Islands, Quality, Treasure

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• There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.

  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

  Melancholy, Accompany

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• That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Heat, Sometimes

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Feelings, Unity, Sentiments

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Circles, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.22

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• Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

  James Russell Lowell

  Abiding, Generations, Influence

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• It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Reason, Easier, Enthusiastic

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

  Phillips Brooks

  Losing, Admiration, Glory

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• Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

  Edmund Burke

  Powerful, Causes, Most Powerful

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.9

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• Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Law, Hands

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• Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Integrity, Adversity, Enemy

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• Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  May, Chill, Enlightening

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.18

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• I gaze upon the thousand stars
  That fill the midnight sky;
  And wish, so passionately wish,
  A light like theirs on high.
  I have such eagerness of hope
  To benefit my kind;
  I feel as if immortal power
  Were given to my mind.

  Margaret Landon

  Stars, Light, Sky

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• Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

  Bill Vaughan

  Optimism, Effort, Mind

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• Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

  Thomas Eakins

  Goal

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• The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

  Sargent Shriver

  Peace, Spirit, Guilty

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• Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

  Conrad Hilton

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

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• Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Life, Motivational, 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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• The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  College, Wish, World

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• Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

  William Howard Taft

  Judgement, Causes, Sometimes

  William Howard Taft (1912*). “Peace, patriotic and religious addresses by President Taft: delivered during his administration”

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• And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

  Birch Bayh

  Loss, People, World

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