Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 13

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm brushes off upon those with whom you come in contact.

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

Youth culture adopts Armani and adapts it in its own way, as befits youthful enthusiasm.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

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?

So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.

A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before.

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

With enthusiasm anything is possible.