Enthusiasm Quotes

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
George Sand

Nature, Destroy, Chill

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
Tom Peters

Change, Past, Same

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

Great, Power, Action

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

Great, Power, Character

And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.
Glenn Tipton

Love, Energy, Stage

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
Bela Lugosi

Acting, Price, Martyrdom

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury

Best, Yourself, Give

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
Sargent Shriver

Live, Down, Accused

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
Sargent Shriver

Peace, Guilty, Spirit

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton

Above, Skill, Rate

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B. Butler

Life, Success, Another

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Ella Maillart

Away, Run, Routine

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.
Paul Feig

Life, Humor, Great

One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they play around with all the classic tropes of art-damaged angst-noise perv-rock, they exude a totally cheery and boyish enthusiasm onstage, goofing around with their keyboards and beatboxes.
Rob Sheffield

Liars, Different, Play

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
Sally Kirkland

Attitude, Expression, Aggressive

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
Angela Merkel

Great, Through, Country

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
Angela Merkel

Change, Problem, Changes

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi Minh

Confidence, Joy, Again

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Knute Rockne

Winning, Same, Off

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.
Paul J. Meyer

Dough, Raises, Yeast

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
Chris Martin

Whatever, Skill, Actual

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
Roger Daltrey

Feeling, Simply

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
Bill Nighy

Life, Good, Real

When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
Bill Nighy

Clothes, Clothing, Casual

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.
Michael Morpurgo

Love, Great, Parents

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael

God, Sense, Word

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards

Sure, Interest, Teach

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
Queen Elizabeth II

Success, Leadership, Work

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
Jack Schwartz

Home, Black, Rights

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
Norton Juster

Best, Trying, Find

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