Enthusiasm Quotes

Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.

Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

General George S. Patton

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm and sec ond a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.

No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions new aspirations new efforts new vision. Compete with yourself set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone he has failed to feed it.

Anonymous

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

William Hazlitt

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven Wagner Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice being excited.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Charles Lindbergh

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

General Douglas MacArthur

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Christian Bovee

Do it big or stay in bed.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

William Hazlitt

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Knowledge is power but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

Buddha

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

It is energy the central element of which is will that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. It is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy.

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

Federico Fellini

Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Johann von Goethe

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

Louis Auchincloss

No one grows old by living only by losing interest in living.

Marie Beynon Ray

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

Years wrinkle the face but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.

He did it with all his heart and prospered.

Bible

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.

Thomas N. Carruther

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!

George Matthew Adams

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Nicholas Murray Butler

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes more than enthusiasm I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

Walter Chrysler

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

Edwin Way Teale

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy is success in life.

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

Edward B. Butler

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Sir Edward Appleton

A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the means.

William Hazlitt

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit we get things done.

If you're not happy every morning when you get up leave for work or start to work at home-if you're not enthusiastic about doing that you're not going to be successful.

Donald M. Kendall

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart if you want it to work.

When his enthusiasm goes he's through as a player.

Pete Rose

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Benjamin Disraeli

Give me a man who sings at his work.

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