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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Onstage, it's all just a heightened and more elaborate version of me. When you're standing onstage, your adrenaline is going, your enthusiasm is at full tilt, and the excitement helps elevate you're attitude. I've always wanted to be as close to myself offstage, being funny with my buddies, and that's what I've worked hard on - being authentic to who I really am.

One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

Optimism generates hope...hope releases dreams...dreams set goals...enthusiasm follows

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Overtraining is the biggest problem incurred by runners who lack the experience or discipline to cope with their own enthusiasm.

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But this new enthusiasm finally caused us some trouble, and it suffices to say, if I remember correctly, that it was in this way that my thoughts turned to the young maidens.

Practice being excited.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.

Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.

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

Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not only are they themselves excited about what they are doing, but they also get you excited

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

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

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".

The bilateral relationship is unshakable, but playing politics with that relationship could blunt Secretary Kerry's enthusiasm for being Israel's primary defender.

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

The enthusiasm for [Donald] Trump had gone up. The net result was it made people more supportive of him.

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.