Gusto Quotes

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Dale Carnegie

Wind, Live In The Moment, Live For Today

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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Dale Carnegie

Life, Motivational, Time

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

W. Clement Stone

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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If you're going to do something, do it with gusto. Don't do anything half-heartedly. That dishonors the doing and the doer. So go for it. Hold nothing back. In life. Or love. Or anything at all!

Neale Donald Walsch

Doers, Half, Action

FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 27, 2016

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Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Ava DuVernay

Moving, Goal, Passionate

"The "My Mic Sounds Nice" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

M. F. K. Fisher

Grace, Meals, Might

Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?

C.P. Snow

Science, Law, People

C.P. SNOW (1963). “THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK”

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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Og Mandino

Life, Thinking, Seize The Day

Og Mandino (1986). “Mission: success!”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.

Swami Vivekananda

Dog, Mistake, Struggle

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1642, Manonmani Publishers

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The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

Theodore White

Country, Party, Passion

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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.

Al Yankovic

Inspirational, Keys, Lows

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I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

Kirstie Alley

Half, Marriage Love, Failing

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I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.

William Lyon Phelps

Life, Believe, Mean

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Imagination, Secret

Robert Louis Stevenson (1900). “A Christmas Sermon”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.

Dale Carnegie

Live In The Moment, Live For Today, Hobbies

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Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

Douglas Leone

Giving, Entrepreneur, Give Me

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Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.

Danielle LaPorte

Years, Excellence, Three

Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.206, Sounds True

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We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

Henry David Thoreau

Writing, Wells

Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

Ray Bradbury

Being Yourself, Fun, Eye

Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.

Julia Child

Real, People, Dry

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The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.' It is a statement about theology; it is a statement about beer. It's lousy beer and even worse theology.

John Silber

Beer, Television, Consumerism

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Although Grandma's passion had led me to the power of food, not all of her recipes were healthy. I kept her gusto and the love that she put into her cuisine but ditched the ingredients that bought her a one-way ticket to arthritis, diverticulitis and a host of other inflammatory conditions. I also ditched my own addictions and compulsions around food, especially sugar.

Kris Carr

Grandma, Passion, Addiction

"Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

Ray Bradbury

Names, Creating, Zest

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He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

Emily Bronte

Children, Wind, Hypocrisy

Emily Bronte (2015). “Wuthering Heights: Classic English Literature”, p.145, 谷月社

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Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way." "All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I was in my teens, I wasn't above using my gift for revenge. None of you did that." Joley slowly raised her hand, sliding down in the chair as she did so. Hannah followed suit, though she didn't look in the least remorseful. Sarah shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand and glared at Elle, who just grinned sheepishly and put up a couple of fingers. Carol tossed her head and waved her arm with gusto.

Christine Feehan

Couple, Revenge, Said Life

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