Enthusiasm Quotes

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?

No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

Dogs don't make mistakes.

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm.

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

Young people can be annoying, let's face it. But they can also be really refreshing to be around and full of enthusiasm.

Being enthusiastic settles nothing.

When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.

In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

Maktub" (It is written.)

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

Love those you hate you.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Convictions are prisons.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.