Enthusiasm Quotes

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

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

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.