Enthusiasm Quotes

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

He who limps is still walking.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

Hear the meaning within the word.

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.