Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 22

• Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

  John Otway

  Long, Way, Belief

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• I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Play, League

  "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 1, 2008.

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• There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as a dedicated actress. Enthusiasm and hard work are requisites for any job a person undertakes. I tried working just for money once and it made me almost physically ill.

  Lizabeth Scott

  Jobs, Hard Work, Heart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Love, Motivational, Time

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• Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

  Dada Vaswani

  Money Power, Influence, Assets

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• It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs – a mass of other germs – and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?

  Victor Serge

  Men, Years, Judging

  "Memoirs of a Revolutionary".

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• Great point made in son's college orientation re sex/safety/respect/etc: 'Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm.'

  Rachel Vail

  Bars, Lows, Consent

  Rachel Vail @rachelvailbooks, twitter.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Couple, Acceptance, Expectations

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Feelings, Consciousness, States

  FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from Mar 23, 2012

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• A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

  Radhanath Swami

  Soul, Trying, Sincere

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• Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work.

  Jamling Tenzing Norgay

  Father, Walking, Hard

  Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Broughton Coburn (2002). “Touching my father's soul: in the footsteps of Sherpa Tenzing”, Vintage

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• It's not that the (social media) tools themselves inspire trust and collaboration. We use them as a medium to connect, and thus generate trust and enthusiasm.

  Nancy White

  Media, Inspire, Collaboration

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• Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspire, Infidelity, World

  "Ranke's History of the Popes" by Thomas B. Macaulay, "Edinburgh Review", October, 1840.

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• Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.

  Jacquie Phelan

  Cycling, People, Mountain

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• When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Way, Faces

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.66, Pelican Publishing

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• To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.

  Jim Valvano

  Dream, Laughter, Hard Work

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Running, Reality, Vision

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• I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Mind, Wish, May

  "Elizabeth Fry: Life and Labors of the Eminent Philanthropist, Preacher and Prison Reformer".

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• Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.

  Brian Tracy

  Business, Two, Choices

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• No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to realize the oneness of humanity.

  Lilian Whiting

  Life, Motivational, Morning

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• I am impressed with just the enthusiasm for life and the fact that some of these people are in their 80's, even 90's, and they're absolutely determined to get out there and make a difference.

  Richard Branson

  Life, Differences, People

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• The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Animal, Zest

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• Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

  Irwin Shaw

  New York, Made, Critics

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• You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use all periods of design in my work, for, after all, decorative styles are simply indications of a manner of living.

  Dorothy Draper

  Long, Common Sense, Imagination

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• I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

  Joe Perry

  Thinking, Lucky, Band

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