Enthusiasm famous quotes
05-17-2025
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One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
-- A. B. Simpson -
There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
-- Adam Smith -
Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.
-- Adora Svitak -
None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.
-- Adora Svitak -
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage -
It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
-- Alan Autry -
If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.
-- Alan Sugar -
The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.
-- Aldo Leopold -
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
-- Alex Kapranos -
If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.
-- Alfie Kohn -
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later
-- Alistair Cooke -
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
-- Angela Merkel -
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
-- Ann Wigmore -
I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
-- Anne Lamott -
There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury -
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
-- Bela Lugosi -
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 -
I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.
-- Bill Nighy -
When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
-- Bill Nighy -
It's the greatest thing in the world, natural enthusiasm. You are nothing without it.
-- Bill Shankly -
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
-- Blaise Pascal -
If i'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself.
-- Blake Lively -
Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster
-- Bo -
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive
-- Bo -
I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.
-- Brenda Ueland -
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
-- Brian Baumgartner -
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.
-- Carey Mulligan -
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
-- Casey Stengel -
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
-- Charles Churchill -
Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.
-- Charles R. Schwab -
One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.
-- Charles R. Schwab -
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.
-- Christian Morgenstern -
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
-- Conrad Hilton -
The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".
-- Constant Lambert -
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.
-- Dada Vaswani -
Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.
-- Dale Carnegie -
...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
-- Dale Carnegie -
True professional selling is simply sharing enthusiasm.
-- Dan Miller -
Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.
-- Deena Kastor -
In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.
-- Del Howison -
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
-- Democritus -
Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.
-- Denise Austin -
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
Curtis, where was that enthusiasm in the match? You might have won.
-- Dolph Ziggler -
I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
-- Don Bluth -
If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.
-- Don King -
Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.
-- Don Watson -
As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
-- Earl Nightingale -
The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all – from the most simple task to the most complex.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
-- Edmund Hillary -
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
-- Edward Victor Appleton -
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
-- Emily Dickinson -
Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.
-- Eric Garcetti -
The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm.
-- Erik Naggum -
I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.
-- Erno Rubik -
I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.
-- Federico Fellini -
Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.
-- Frances Mayes -
Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.
-- Francis Picabia -
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.
-- Francois Guizot -
Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most contagious.
-- Frank Bettger -
Enthusiasm: If you don’t FEEL enthusiastic, ACT enthusiastic. Soon, you’ll BE enthusiastic. Double your enthusiasm and you’ll probably double your income.
-- Frank Bettger -
The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.
-- Frederick Mosteller -
Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
-- Fritz Kreisler -
Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.
-- Gail Sher -
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
-- George Eliot -
A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.
-- George Henry Lewes -
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.
-- George Iles -
Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire
-- George Matthew Adams -
The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.
-- Gerard De Nerval -
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.
-- Giorgio Vasari
