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Quotes About Enthusiasm

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
~ Helen MacInness
Enthusiasm... - something close to passion at times... (is) the stuff brilliance (is) made of....
~ Helen Nielsen
I must say, I rather like the Beatles. If the fans just wouldn't scream so.
~ Helene Hanff
pretense of perfection can kill your enthusiasm as well as your ability to move forward. Don't indulge it. Mistakes are part of the growing process. Some of the greatest innovations have come as a result of things going awry. A senior leader once told me that it's okay to make mistakes as long as you don't make the same mistake twice.
~ Helene Lerner
There's no pressure. It is going to be fun, a great game, and I look forward to meeting the challenge.
~ Hendrie Weisinger
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
~ Henry Adams
No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
~ Henry Ford
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.
~ Henry Ford
The young Johnson was what Coleridge liked to call a 'library cormorant', a rapacious creature nesting among books.
~ Henry Hitchings
You don't have to twist my arm to work.
~ Henry Rollins
A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Nice passion is reading
~ Leo Tolstoy
To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Datoria ... o pasiune f?r? bucurie.
~ Leon Wieseltier
My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.
~ Lesley Visser
I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
~ Leslie Fiedler
A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
She knew she was obsessed, but it was turning out that she was the kind of person who needed to be obsessed with something, and she could have done a lot worse.
~ Lev Grossman
It was the strangest thing, but he was looking forward to everything so much, he could hardly stand it. He never would have believed it. He never thought he would. "You know what?" He took Alice's hand. "Let's fly.
~ Lev Grossman
Don't be afraid to show excitement for what you do. Too often people try to appear above the fray by staying emotionally aloof. Believe me, it doesn't work. If you're looking to stir others to action--from returning your phone calls to getting your project approved--get them excited about what you're doing. You'll see surprising results.
~ levine stuart r