Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 4

• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Confidence

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• Life is enthusiasm, zest.

  Laurence Olivier

  Zest, Life Is

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• A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

  Robert Genn

  Beautiful, Growing, Affair

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.33, Studio Beckett Publications

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• O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?

  Joanna Baillie

  Writing, Lovely, Magic

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.782

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• Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Law, Hands

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• I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases.

  Claude Monet

  Order, Ordinary, Paint

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• Enthusiasm is a divine possession.

  Margaret Sanger

  Divine, Possession

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• He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Summer, Struggle, Cricket Match

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• Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Beautiful, Earth, Beautiful Words

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• Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Careers, People, Giving

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• Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Degrees, Impossible, Assuming

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• I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

  Robert Lowell

  Overcoming

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• When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jobs, Alive, Possibility

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• ...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Might, Drowning

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• Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Feelings, Unity, Sentiments

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Integrity, Adversity, Enemy

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• I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.

  Richard Estes

  Real, Thinking, Done

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• There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.

  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

  Melancholy, Accompany

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

  Conrad Hilton

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

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• The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

  Sargent Shriver

  Peace, Spirit, Guilty

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• Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Life, Motivational, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

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• The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  College, Wish, World

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• And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

  Birch Bayh

  Loss, People, World

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• Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

  William Howard Taft

  Judgement, Causes, Sometimes

  William Howard Taft (1912*). “Peace, patriotic and religious addresses by President Taft: delivered during his administration”

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