enthusiasm quotes

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what’s called in the press ‚Obama’s Army.‘ But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That’s critical.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

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.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

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.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

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.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

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.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

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.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

You can be passionate about anything.