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Quotes About Enthusiasm

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
~ Thomas Mann
Practice being excited.
~ Bill Foster
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
~ B. C. Forbes
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
~ Peggy Fleming
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
~ John D. Rockefeller III
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.
~ B. C. Forbes
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
~ Watterson Lowe
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.
~ Vince Lombardi
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
~ William McFee
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
~ Charles M. Schwab
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
~ Dale Carnegie
The world belongs to the energetic.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real difference between men is energy.
~ Thomas Fuller
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.
~ Charles Buxton
The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
~ Thomas Eakins
Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
~ Edward B. Butler
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
~ Vauvenargues
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
~ Charles Buxton
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
~ Sir Edward Appleton
If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful.
~ Donald M. Kendall
We only do well the things we like doing.
~ Colette
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers