Enthusiasm Quotes

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

America is too great for small dreams.

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

The best director is the one you don't see.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.