Enthusiasm Quotes

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

I am a part of all that I have met.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.

To finish first, you must first finish.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Follow your enthusiasm. It's something I've always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

I hereby arm myself for today with coffee and the willingness to be wrong.

Light will someday split you open

I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.