Quotes About Enthusiasm

Always have a passion in your life.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. —

Think about it. When was the last time you waltzed into a room buzzing with energy?

If one word applied to that post-war decade it was inertia. Enthusiasm there was not, in this climate of fatigue. Jimmy Porter was hurt because things had remained the same. Colonel Redfern grieved that everything had changed. They were both wrong, but that was hard to see at the time.

How I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm- that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! I'm alive! I've an idea. Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive. Just for a while. What do you say? Let's pretend we're human." ? John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

I greeted his posting with the sort of enthusiasm that would have followed the news that King Herod had been chosen to supervise the crèche. Very early on in our working relationship I ventured the notion - on air - that clouds were, if you like, poems in the sky, and he greeted this outbreak of loveliness with spluttering disbelief. here, I felt, was a singularly crass man.

This was Andrew Murray's judgment a hundred years ago: As we seek to find out why, with such millions of Christians, the real army of God that is fighting the hosts of darkness is so small, the only answer is—lack of heart. The enthusiasm of the kingdom is missing. And that is because there is so little enthusiasm for the King.18

There is a world of difference between the silence of apathy and the silence of passion!

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

You have to absolutely love what you are doing or you will become a slave to it.

Never when controversy avoided the subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm was the mind of a people stirred up from its foundations, and the impulse given which raised even persons of the most ordinary intellect to something of the dignity of thinking beings.

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.

Catch on fire and others will love to come watch you burn.

Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

Get on fire for God, and people will come to watch you burn!"-John Wesley

Nicolaus of Damascus to Strabo of Amasia: My dear old friend, you have been eminently correct in your descriptions and enthusiasms over the years – this is the most extraordinary of cities in the most extraordinary of times.

I thought how when a person is really excited about something, it can be contagious.

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