Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 34

• Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.

  Confucius

  Three, Lessons, Excitement

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• Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Rifles, Bullets, Ability

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• Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Humor, Views

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.277, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Self, Swallowing, Oblivion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1839). “On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each”, p.223

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• It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

  Charles Kuralt

  Passion, Important

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• A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Born, Persons, Greater

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Attitude, Crazy

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• Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs.

  Stephen Covey

  Passion, Fire, Needs

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

  Peter Greenaway

  People, Cinema, Twenties

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

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• We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

  Phil Taylor

  Baseball, Cheer, Dirty

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• If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Feelings, Unhappy, Acting

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Thinking, Talking, Acting

  Norman Vincent Peale (1961). “The Tough-minded Optimist”

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• Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Long, Giving, Vitality

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

  Benjamin Graham

  Long, Prejudice, May

  Benjamin Graham, David Le Fevre Dodd (1934). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.

  David S. Baxter

  Giving, World, Principles

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• O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  First Love, Blow, Dust

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• When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.

  Bee Dawson

  Garden, Years, Expansion

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• But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

  Linus Pauling

  Discovery, Imagination, Interesting

  "Science in Progress", Sixth Series, edited by George A. Baitsell, 1949.

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• The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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• In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.

  Louis Cozolino

  Buddhism, Healthy, Brain

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• Enthusiasm attracts more passengers and energizes them during the ride.

  Jon Gordon

  Passengers

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

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• Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

  Jon Gordon

  Mean, Greek, Inspired

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've always felt that I shouldn't scream on the air...I just feel there's a way of rising enthusiastically if there's an exciting play, but you don't have to scream. There are people who do shout, and I think that's unnecessary. You have to be under control at all times, no matter what's taking place. Enthusiasm and excitement can be expressed without going berserk.

  Marv Albert

  Thinking, Air, Play

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• Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like a hot new idea to liberals, but soon goes to irksome and destructive extremes.

  Joseph Sobran

  Ideas, Hot, Flaws

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• It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Pain, Adventure

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