Enthusiasm Quotes And Sayings

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“Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.”
– Isaac Disraeli

“Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.”
– Ivern Ball

“Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”
– James Baldwin

“I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?”
– James Thomson

“The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.”
– James Whitcomb Riley

“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
– Jean de la Fontaine

“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

“Wake up with a smile and go after life…. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.” 
– Joe Knapp

“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.”
– John Muir

“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come from miles to watch your burn.”
– John Wesley

“Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm – from the Greek, filled with God’ – is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.”
– Julia Cameron

“Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.” 
– Julia Child

“A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm, that after they have lost all they are sure to lose in mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions.”
– Julius C. Hare

“Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Zeal is a volcano, on the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.”
– Khalil Gibran

“When we are enthusiastic we are intoxicated with passion rooted in our true selves and it flows into all we do.”
– Linda Saccoccio

“If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.”
– Lou Holtz

“Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good.”
– Lucia Capacchione

“Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
– Mark Twain

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
– Mark Twain

“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.”
– Mary Kay Ash

“The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.” 
– Mencius

“I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.”
– Mevlana Rumi

“Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.” 
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

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

“Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

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