Enthusiasm Quotes

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

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.

One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

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.

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

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

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.

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

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?

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.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

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.

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

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.