Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
~By Steve Irwin ~
He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
~By Macaulay Culkin ~
It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
~By Samuel Ullman ~
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
~By Peter Hammill ~
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
~By Alban Berg ~
What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
~By Ted Allen ~
From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
~By David Seabury ~
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
~By Letitia Landon ~
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.
~By John Cornyn ~
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.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.
~By Andy Pick ~
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
~By David Viscott ~
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
~By Arthur Balfour ~
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
~By Bruce Barton ~
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
~By Henry Ford ~
We have built a genuine level of enthusiasm and goodwill with people throughout this district. People are really excited about the possibilities this election holds, not just for this district, but because of the message Alabama sent to the rest of the country.
~By Artur Davis ~
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
~By Robert Schumann ~
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
~By Anatole France ~
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.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
~By George Sand ~
Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.
~By John Kluge ~
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
~By James Thomson ~
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
~By Pele ~
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
~By Thomas John Watson, Sr. ~
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
~By Robert Duvall ~
Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
~By Delia Ephron ~
My strength is my enthusiasm.
~By Placido Domingo ~
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
~By Robert Englund ~
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.
~By Tom Daschle ~
Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
~By Loretta Young ~
You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.
~By Simon Pegg ~
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
~By William Warburton ~
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
~By James Whitcomb Riley ~
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
~By Henry Miller ~
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.
~By James Larkin ~
Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
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.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
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.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
And I thought my loss 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.
~By Birch Bayh ~
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.
~By Jim Evans ~
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
~By William Howard Taft ~
It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.
~By Mark Millar ~
Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
~By Alan Autry ~
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
~By George A. Smith ~
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.
~By Elihu Root ~
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
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?
~By Don Bluth ~
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
~By George Sand ~
Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.
~By Lou Diamond Phillips ~
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
~By Adam Smith ~
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
~By Edward B. Butler ~
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
~By Minna Antrim ~
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
~By Norton Juster ~
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
~By Margaret Murray ~
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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