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Quotes About Enthusiasm

Gardening is simply a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it
~ Author unknown, 1940s
I believe the two greatest words in the English language are "Play ball!"
~ Matt Williams
Scorpio motto: Do it with passion or not at all.
~ Internet meme
Make haste to Love.
~ Hadewijch
I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.
~ Hanif Kureishi
We have seen year after year the passion you have for music, and the way you have always been incredibly passionate fans, even though Hanson has not always been the coolest thing to be into.
~ Hanson
Excessively happy people signify cult activities,' I whispered to Joey.
~ Harley Jane Kozak
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.
~ Harold Bloom
If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.
~ Harold Eugene Edgerton
The less harshly we judge ourselves, the more accepting we become of others. People want to be around you if you feel enthusiastic about yourself and others. Just as dissatisfaction with yourself is contagious, so is enthusiasm.
~ Harold H. Bloomfield
When the world stops booing the church and begins to applaud it, its enthusiasm ought to arouse the Christian's suspicion.
~ HAROLD O. J. BROWN
Whatever brings you joy and zest will enhance your ability to act bravely.
~ Harriet Lerner
Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
You know when people can get excited over the ordinary things in life, they live
~ Harry Truman
He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.
~ Harry Turtledove
My father was an inspiration to me I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.
~ Hayley Mills
What are we going to blow up?" Morgan sighed happily and slapped joss on the back. " Kid... you just said my seven favorite words.
~ Heather Brewer
this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod
~ Heather Brewer
How would I ever consider a skill that gave me goose bumps a hobby?
~ Heather Waldorf
Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.
~ Laurie Notaro
None of my friends knows that most of the sick days I've taken from work are not sick days, but Austen days.
~ Laurie Viera Rigler
I was thrilled by discovery, crushed by disappointment, and mortified by any misplaced enthusiasm. I declared allegiance, took a position, and always had a view, not noticing that girls were bemused and boys found me boring. Was a girl not supposed to feel so strongly, let alone want so much to possess and know something for her own sake?
~ Lavinia Greenlaw
I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.
~ Lawrence Clark Powell
It is not uncommon for the cyclist, in the first flush of enthusiasm which quickly follows the unpleasantness of taming the steel steed, to remark, 'Wheeling is just like flying!' This is true in more ways than one.… Both modes of travel are riding upon the air, though in one case a small quantity of air is carried in a bag and in the other the air is unbagged.… To learn to wheel one must learn to balance; to learn to fly one must learn to balance.
~ Lawrence Goldstone