Life Quotes... Enthusiasm

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
                                                Aldous Huxley

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
                                                Andrew Carnegie

“What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.”
                                                Bertrand Russell

“Indifference may not wreck a man’s life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.”
                                                Bliss Carman

“You can’t sweep people off their feet if you can’t be swept off yours.”
                                                Clarence Day

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
                                                Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”
                                                George Santayana

“Exuberance is better than taste.”
                                                Gustave Flaubert

“A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.”
                                                Harvey Cushing

“Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.”
                                                Helena Rubinstein

“There is real magic in enthusiasm.  It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
                                                Norman Vincent Peale

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
                                                Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”
                                                Samuel Goldwyn

“The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.”
                                                Samuel Johnson

“There is nothing so easy but it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
                                                Terence

“The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.”
                                                William McFee

“Enthusiasm is more important than any other commodity.  It will find solutions when none are apparent, and it will achieve success where none is thought possible.”

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