Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 14

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness ... it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

Be careful who you share your dreams with; not everyone shares your enthusiasm.

A sincere soul is not trying to make a show. His enthusiasm is an act of service.

Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm!

If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.

You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work.

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

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.

I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance.

Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing.

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

Being internet famous is kind of like being a camp counselor, and you've got this group of rowdy energetic kids every day. You've got to come up with something new every single day to entertain all of us. The internet is a 24-hour playground, there's a lot of enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.