Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~By Samuel Ullman ~
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
~By Loretta Young ~
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.
~By John Templeton ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
~By Steve Irwin ~
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 ~
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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 ~
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 ~
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
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 ~
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.
~By Duncan Hunter ~
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
~By Charles Schwab ~
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 ~
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
~By David Seabury ~
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 ~
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
~By Bruce Barton ~
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
~By John Muir ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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 ~
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
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 ~
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
~By William Warburton ~
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
~By Edward Appleton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.
~By Herb Elliott ~
What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
~By Ted Allen ~
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 ~
Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
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 don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
~By Walter Chrysler ~
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
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 ~
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
~By Knute Rockne ~
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 ~
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 the most important thing in life.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
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 ~
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
~By Pele ~
Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
~By Howard Cosell ~
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
~By Herbert Croly ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
~By Adam Smith ~
Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
~By Ella Maillart ~
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
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 ~
My strength is my enthusiasm.
~By Placido Domingo ~
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 ~
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 ~
Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.
~By Lou Diamond Phillips ~
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
~By Minna Antrim ~
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
~By William Howard Taft ~
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
~By Osbert Lancaster ~
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 ~
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 ~
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
~By Jim Valvano ~
I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
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