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“As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.”
“Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving if your sights are set far above the merely secure and med...”
“Enthusiasm signifies God in us.”
“Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.”
“Practice being excited.”
“Enthusiasm is life.”
“To sing is to love and affirm to fly and soar to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live that love is there that nothing is a promise but that beauty ...”
“It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.”
“O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you And write by inward magic charm'd And high enthusiasm warm'd?”
“The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.”
“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”
“Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.”
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
“Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.”
“Life is enthusiasm zest.”
“To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy is success in life.”
“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.”
“Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.”
“Success is due less to ability than to zeal.”
“There is only one big thing-desire. And before it when it is big all is little.”