225 quotes found
“Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.”
“Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.”
“Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.”
“Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?”
“I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
“In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”
“It is energy the central element of which is will that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. It is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all g...”
“You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like ...”
“Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
“Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.”
“The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?”
“No one grows old by living only by losing interest in living.”
“Years wrinkle the face but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
“He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.”
“The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.”
“Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm and sec ond a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
“Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.”
“My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.”
“I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.”
