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 ~
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
~By Walter Chrysler ~
I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
~By Carl Sagan ~
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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 ~
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
~By Edward Appleton ~
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
~By Helena Petrova Blavatsky ~
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
~By James Broughton ~
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
~By Thomas John Watson, Sr. ~
My strength is my enthusiasm.
~By Placido Domingo ~
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 ~
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
~By Robert Englund ~
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 ~
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
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 ~
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 ~
Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.
~By Lou Diamond Phillips ~
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 ~
I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
~By Margaret Murray ~
The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
~By Angela Merkel ~
Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.
~By Herb Elliott ~
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 ~
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
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 ~
I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
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 ~
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.
~By Duncan Hunter ~
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 ~
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
~By Immanuel Velikovsky ~
I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.
~By William Joyce ~
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 ~
It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
~By Alan Autry ~
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 ~
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
~By Tom Peters ~
No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.
~By Ronald Harwood ~
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
~By Bruce Barton ~
And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.
~By Glenn Tipton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
~By Robert Schumann ~
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 ~
Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
~By Madame de Stael ~
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 ~
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
~By Ted Allen ~
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 ~
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
~By Herbert Croly ~
Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
~By William Warburton ~
Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
~By Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ~
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
~By Michael Jordan ~
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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 ~
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
~By Ella Maillart ~
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
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 ~
Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
~By Richard Ernst ~
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
~By Augustus Hare ~
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 ~
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
~By Loretta Young ~
Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
~By Frederick Reines ~
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 ~
Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
~By Kevin Nealon ~
I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
~By Steve Irwin ~
It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
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 ~
I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.
~By Holly Marie Combs ~
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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 ~
I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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