Enthusiasm Quotes

Don’t just stand there; make something happen.

An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

All thinking men are atheists.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

Let what comes come, let what goes go.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

Realize that "I Can't" usually means "I won't"!