Enthusiasm Quotes - page 2

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance. View quote
Norton Juster
My strength is my enthusiasm. View quote
Placido Domingo
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now. View quote
Peter Mayhew
And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic. View quote
Birch Bayh
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. View quote
Ella Maillart
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. View quote
Immanuel Velikovsky
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. View quote
Patricia Ireland
My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression. View quote
Sally Kirkland
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it. (Sargent Shriver)
A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm. View quote
Paulo Coelho
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important. View quote
M. C. Escher
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm it mocks hope it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation. View quote
Thornton Wilder
There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs. View quote
Edmund Burke
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. View quote
Murray Gell-Mann
Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace. View quote
John Ruskin
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character. (Margaret Mead)
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. View quote
Washington Irving
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. View quote
Steven Wright
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities. View quote
Cesare Pavese
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. View quote
W. Clement Stone