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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.
Enthusiasm | Life | Life | Man | Success |
Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
Enthusiasm | Life | Life | Man | Success |
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
Enthusiasm | Heart | Man |
There is a sphere where the enthusiasm of love is the calm habit of the soul, that without words, without the demonstrations of affection, heart beats to heart, soul answers soul, we respond to the Infinite Love, and we feel his answer in us, and there is no need of words.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Enthusiasm | Man |
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.
Enthusiasm | Fame | Motives | Nothing | Time | Youth | Think |
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Enthusiasm | Man |
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. As long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it. But when they begin to look around and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters in, is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand at the end, like the pyramids in the desert, holding only the dust of things.
Enthusiasm | Joy | Men | Pleasure | Receive | Wealth | Think |
Mary Kay Ash, fully Mary Kathlyn Wagner Ash
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Enthusiasm | Will |
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Success at anything requires two vital ingredients: enthusiasm and perseverance. Both can be helped by the broad view that looks beyond temporary difficulties and disappointments to a great goal... Enthusiasm is the priceless quality that makes everything different.
Enthusiasm | Looks | Perseverance | Success |
To have enthusiasm for life, act as if you did possess it and you shall have it.
Enthusiasm | Life | Life |
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain.
Enthusiasm | Feelings | Reason |
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Enthusiasm | Heart | Soul | Spirit |
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind, it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness off the deep springs of life. Youth means the temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.
Adventure | Appetite | Courage | Distrust | Emotions | Enthusiasm | Fear | Heart | Ideals | Imagination | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Means | Mind | Self | Soul | Spirit | Time | Will | Wonder | Worry | Youth | Youth | Old |
By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages.
Enthusiasm | Immortality | Influence | Knowledge | Mind | Nations | Power | Sentiment |
David Grayson, pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker
What a convenient and delightful world is this world of books! - If you bring to it not the obligation of the student, or look upon it as an opiate for idleness, but enter it rather with the enthusiasm of the adventurer!
Books | Enthusiasm | Idleness | Obligation | World |
Edmund Gosse, fully Sir Edmund William Gosse
We were as nearly bored as enthusiasm would permit.
Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.
Enthusiasm | Journey | Life | Life | Will |