Quotes about enthusiasm

"The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance."

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"Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast."

Antrim, Minna on enthusiasm   

"Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm."

Archbold, Ralph on enthusiasm   

"The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm."

Arnold, H. W. on enthusiasm   

"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."

Baldwin, James on enthusiasm   

"Enthusiasm moves the world."

Balfour, Arthur James on enthusiasm   

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."

Barton, Bruce on enthusiasm   

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

Beecher, Henry Ward on enthusiasm   

"Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

Bierce, Ambrose on enthusiasm   

"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on enthusiasm
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"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on enthusiasm   

"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on enthusiasm   

"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."

Butler, Edward B. on enthusiasm   

"The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything."

Carlyle, Thomas on enthusiasm   

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

Carnegie, Dale on enthusiasm
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"If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic."

Carnegie, Dale on enthusiasm
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"All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene."

Channing, William Ellery on enthusiasm   

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence."

Chester, Henry on enthusiasm   

"The real secret to success is enthusiasm."

Chrysler, Walter on enthusiasm
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"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on enthusiasm
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"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on enthusiasm   

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

Cowper, William on enthusiasm   

"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."

Day, Clarence on enthusiasm   

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on enthusiasm   

"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."

Disraeli, Benjamin on enthusiasm
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"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."

Edwards, Tryon on enthusiasm
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin."

Erasmus, Desiderius on enthusiasm   

"People who never get carried away should be."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on enthusiasm   

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."

Ford, Henry on enthusiasm
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"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."

France, Anatole on enthusiasm   

"No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty."

Froude, James A. on enthusiasm   

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

Hilton, Conrad on enthusiasm
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"He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair."

I Ching on enthusiasm
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"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking."

Johnson, Samuel on enthusiasm   

"The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American."

Lapham, Lewis H. on enthusiasm   

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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