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“Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.”
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”
“If you're a champion you have to have it in your heart.”
“Human nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics He makes no pas...”
“All passions exaggerate it is because they do that they are passions.”
“If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.”
“Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you say what you've got to say and say it hot.”
“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”
“Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.”
“Our passions are ourselves.”
“People who never get carried away should be.”
“This indeed is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done yet without control of that passion its effects are largely ill or null.”
“When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.”
“Optimism unaccompanied by personal effort is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.”
“When enthusiasm is inspired by reason controlled by caution sound in theory practical in application reflects confidence spreads good cheer raises morale inspires associates arouses loyalty...”
“The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.”
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.”
“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.”
“You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart if you want it ...”
“When his enthusiasm goes he's through as a player.”
