Enthusiasm Quotes

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.

Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.

Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.

Worldliness in the church is a lot more pervasive than a lack of passion for evangelism. Nevertheless, one of the results of worldliness is a waning enthusiasm for evangelism.

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

Before you judge another, ask yourself if what you don't like in them is actually what you don't like in yourself.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; The leader says 'We'.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

Dreams don't have an expiration date.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.