Quotes

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”

– Vince Lombardi

“There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” -

- Norman Vincent Peale

 

 

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

 

– Walter Cronkite

 

 

“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your heart.”

(Ecclesiastes 9:10) Bible

 

 

“Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.”

 

– Og Mandino

 

 

“Enthusiastic people experience life from the inside out.”

 

– Nido Qubein

 

 

 

“One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.”

 

– Edward B. Butler

 

 

“Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire — you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.”

 

– Denis Waitley

 

 

 

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

 

– Colette

 

 

“Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.”

 

– William Arthur Ward

 

 

 

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” -

 

- Charles Kingsley

 

 

 

“I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.” -

 

- Sir Edward Appleton

 

 

 

“If we seize each opportunity with enthusiasm, someone will surely notice. The “little extra” that is the automatic byproduct of enthusiasm marks the distinction between average and excellence.”

 

– Neil Eskelin

 

 

 

“To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”

 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

“Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you’re excited about something it’s contagious.”

 

– Mark Victor Hansen

 

 

 

“Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.”

 

– David Seabury

 

 

 

“You start it - you may as well start it positive, friendly, and enthusiastic — no matter what.” -

- Jeffrey Gitomer

 

 

“In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”

 

– Doug Firebaugh

 

 

 

“The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and executive with vigor.”

 

– Christian Bovee

 

 

 

“When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy.”

 

– Samuel Goldwyn

 

 

 

“Identifying your enthusiasms requires courage and heroic creative vision. You have to believe that what you want is possible for you.”

– Marsha Sinetar

“The only opinion about your dream that really counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations - not yours.”

--Cynthia Kersey

  

 Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

-– Peter F. Drucker

 “A positive attitude is perhaps more important at home than anywhere else. As spouses and parents, one of our most vital roles is to help those we love feel good about themselves.”

–Keith Harrell

“Everything you do has secondary consequences. Considering secondary consequences is the hallmark of wisdom and the basis of all civilization.” Brian Tracy

“Working hard is the foundation for any success in life…but many people have what I call the ‘Reverse Disease´…they see ‘working hard´ as ‘hardly working´…and expect the same results…. yeah right.”

–Doug Firebaugh

“An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”

–Syndey J. Harris

“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.”

–Dale Carnegie

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”

–Henry Van Dyke

“I am only one; but still I am one.  I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” Helen Keller

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”

–Woodrow Wilson

“The most effective way I know to understand and clarify life purpose is to develop a personal mission statement.”

–Greg Anderson

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.”

–Nido Qubein

“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.”

–Sir William Osler

 

 

“Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.”

Blaise Pascal

“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.” -

- Samuel Butler

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

– Dalai Lama

“If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.”

– Leo F. Buscaqlia

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”

– Emma Goldman