Enthusiasm Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

human desires are the main cause of suffering

I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for the end. You are worth it.

The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence

Coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

If there is one thing I know, it is this, rich people are remarkably unremarkable.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two and wear my dagger with the braver grace

To a great mind, nothing is little.

There are worst things in life than kissing boys.

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.

Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.

No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life.

Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you say what you've got to say and say it hot.

Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.

Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

New hope, new dreams.

Passionately desired, graciously received.