Quotes about Enthusiasm
Let the record show I would never turn down a role with Lady Gaga.
— Shangela
All one night we sat, with a friend of his, in a big dark roadhouse outside of Philadelphia, arguing and arguing about mysticism, and smoking more and more cigarettes and gradually getting drunk. Eventually, filled with enthusiasm for the purity of heart which begets the vision of God, I went on with them into the city, after the closing of the bars, to a big speak-easy where we completed the work of getting plastered.
— Thomas Merton
Listening to Jeremiah is one hell of a way to get your blood going in the morning; it puts caffeine to shame.
— Kathleen Norris
Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a messianic enthusiasm for reforming those who did not think as they did; they did not, however, represent an immediate threat to civilization. No
— Isabel Allende
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bold and courageous and so full of life. She was adventure and zeal and added a brightness to his day.
— Susan May Warren
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
— William Howard Taft
What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.
— Marty Rubin
THE SEVEN MAJOR POSITIVE EMOTIONS The emotion of DESIRE The emotion of FAITH The emotion of LOVE The emotion of SEX The emotion of ENTHUSIASM The emotion of ROMANCE The emotion of HOPE.
— Napoleon Hill
The salesman who knows how to take his mind off the subject of sex, and direct it in sales effort with as much enthusiasm and determination as he would apply to its original purpose, has acquired the art of sex transmutation, whether he knows it or not.
— Napoleon Hill