Quotes on Enthusiasm

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

Author: Peter Agre

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Author: Walter Annenberg

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Author: Edward Appleton

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Author: Alan Autry

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Author: Arthur Balfour

A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk.

Author: Harry Banks

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Author: Bruce Barton

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

Author: Bo Bennett

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

Author: Bo Bennett

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

Author: Brenda Blethyn

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Author: Matthew Bourne

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Author: Charlotte Bronte

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Author: Sidonie Colette

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

Author: Alistair Cooke

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.

Author: Tom Daschle

My strength is my enthusiasm.

Author: Placido Domingo

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

Author: Tryon Edwards

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Author: Robert Englund

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

Author: Delia Ephron

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.

Author: Jim Evans

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

Author: James Froude

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

Author: Ronald Harwood

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

Author: Edgar Howe

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Author: Patricia Ireland

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Author: Michael Jordan

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.

Author: Norton Juster

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Author: Chiaki Kuriyama

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Author: Osbert Lancaster

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Author: Letitia Landon

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

Author: Jerome Lawrence

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

Author: Vince Lombardi

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Author: Bela Lugosi

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Author: Murray Mann

With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.

Author: Peter Mayhew

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

Author: Paul Meyer

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

Author: Paul Meyer

It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.

Author: Mark Millar

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.

Author: Ho Minh

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

Author: Samuel Morison

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Author: John Muir

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

Author: Kevin Nealon

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Author: Blaise Pascal

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Author: Norman Peale

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

Author: Pele

Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.

Author: Lou Phillips

I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.

Author: Andy Pick

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Author: Edgar Poe

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

Author: Knute Rockne

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

Author: Graeme Saux

From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.

Author: Graeme Saux

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Author: Charles Schwab

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

Author: David Seabury

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

Author: Sargent Shriver

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

Author: William Taft

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

Author: William Temple

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Author: Henry Thoreau

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Author: Ivan Turgenev

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

Author: Walter Ulbricht

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Author: Immanuel Velikovsky

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Author: Loretta Young

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

Author: Emil Zatopek

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Author: Stefan Zweig

Success is built on a foundation of failure, perseverance, and unlimited enthusiasm.

Author: Sarah Chang

Embrace the chaos of unpredictability, for in it lies the beauty of endless possibilities.

Author: Sophia Evans

Life is better when you're laughing, no matter what chaos may come.

Author: Alex Rodriguez

Inspiration is like charging your enthusiasm battery.

Author: Amanda Johnson

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off if you just keep pedaling!

Author: Albert Einstein