Top 100 Be Enthusiastic Quotes
#1. If you act enthusiastic, you'll be enthusiastic!
Dale Carnegie
#2. That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and you will accomplish your object.
Harvey MacKay
#4. If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic. There is nothing more contagious on this planet as enthusiasm.
Carlos Santana
#5. A Happiness key: Maintain something to be enthusiastic about. Small/frequent goals = Dopamine hits that propel success.
Steve Maraboli
#6. None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.
E. M. Forster
#8. Enthusiasm: If you don't FEEL enthusiastic, ACT enthusiastic. Soon, you'll BE enthusiastic. Double your enthusiasm and you'll probably double your income.
Frank Bettger
#9. You are what you think. Think enthusiasm and you'll be enthusiastic. To get high-quality work, be enthusiastic about the job you want done. Others will catch the enthusiasm you generate and you'll get first-class performance.
David J. Schwartz
#11. It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.
Mark Zandi
#13. Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie
#15. It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.
Max Beerbohm
#16. I'd rather people turn up than not. And of course I'd rather have people be enthusiastic.
Stella McCartney
#17. 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
#19. If you want to be enthusiastic,
act enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie
#20. Be an example, be positive, be enthusiastic, be proactive--that is proactive leadership.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Now that I think about it, it seems to me that's what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.
Julio Cortazar
#23. Spirit. Approach life with genuine zeal, with vigor and energy. Walk a little faster than average. Read a little more. Try a little harder. Be enthusiastic, even about your thoughts. Give everything you do your every best effort.
Joni Hilton
#24. [Penn Jillette] said, 'If a truck is barreling toward you, no amount of positiveness will stop it from hitting you.' I needed to hear that I didn't have to be enthusiastic all the time. Some days you just need to be in a bad mood.
Julia Sweeney
#25. I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
Fay Wray
#27. I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone.
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.
Steve Irwin
#29. If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.
Dale Carnegie
#30. I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.
Steve Irwin
#31. There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
Eugenio Montale
#32. To be them would be marvelous, but she was condemned to be herself and could only in this silent enthusiastic way, sitting outside in a garden, applaud the society of humanity from which she was excluded.
Virginia Woolf
#33. One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both. If
Deanna Raybourn
#34. To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.
David Cottrell
#36. To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.
Bertrand Russell
#37. She found it hard to believe that there would be any bold moves, because too many people had dirty flour in their bags, and people with filthy fingers are hardly enthusiastic about digging up the past.
Sofi Oksanen
#38. Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. "The great advantage," she said, "of being thought silly, is that people forget and begin to think one might also be foolish. I may, Professor Lyall, be a trifle enthusiastic in my manner and dress, but I am no fool.
Gail Carriger
#39. If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.
Scott McCloud
#40. I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
Bill Gold
#41. You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.
Debasish Mridha
#42. I am not sure what to make of my admittedly anecdotal observation that many of those who most ardently oppose the taking of embryonic life also seem to be more than usually enthusiastic about taking adult life.
Richard Dawkins
#43. I liked him; not because he was a good sort, as he later proved to be, but because he was enthusiastic about things.
Jack Kerouac
#44. Was the heroic creation of a legion of interested and enthusiastic men and women of wide general knowledge and interest; and it lives on today, just as lives the language of which it rightly claims to be a portrait.
Simon Winchester
#45. To get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.
Daniel Coyle
#46. The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.
James Connolly
#47. It's so difficult to sustain a fatwa,' said Domenica. 'One has to be so enthusiastic. I'm not sure if I could find the moral energy myself.
Alexander McCall Smith
#48. We have been so enthusiastic in our welcome as to be obsequious - to machines.
Mark Helprin
#49. The trouble was, explaining to a Feegle how dangerous things were going to be only got them more enthusiastic.
Terry Pratchett
#50. With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual songs while reading the book. I contacted Amazon and discussed the idea with their Kindle team, and they were very enthusiastic about it.
Colleen Hoover
#51. Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize ... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#52. I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be.
Elton John
#53. The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.
Harold Ford Jr.
#54. All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
Sallust
#55. When you are enthusiastic and optimistic with faith, nothing will be impossible for you to achieve.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Be more authentic and enthusiastic when selling your product
Timi Nadela
#57. I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier ... But I doubt.
Carrie Fisher
#58. The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.
Andre Michel Lwoff
#59. I challenge myself everyday to be the most positive and enthusiastic person I know.
Robert Cheeke
#60. But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. This feeling sought release at every opportunity, and with it Grete now felt tempted to want to make Gregor's situation even more terrifying, so that then she would be able to do even more for him than now.
Franz Kafka
#61. It just makes so many other things insignificant. It is the most incredible thing that has happened to me, and I feel so lucky to have found the person I want to be with, and to be prepared and enthusiastic.
Ryan Phillippe
#62. If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.
Alcuin
#64. I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.
Adrian Tomine
#65. I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
Richard Dawkins
#66. The crowd in Atlanta was amazing the last time we played there. They were enthusiastic, engaged in the game and were happy to be there. They are excited about soccer.
Kelley O'Hara
#67. You will look like an enthusiastic child telling his parents about the new things he is learning at school, and I'm positive the experience will be unforgettable for you as it was for me.
Maggie Sokolik
#68. I, too, have my code. As long as I love you, your will must be my will. If you believe that yielding to me would be weakness, that accepting my love would destroy you, I will not touch you. You must come to me with the whole of your will, or not at all.
Robert Shea
#69. I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.
Shonda Rhimes
#70. I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
#71. I'm always excited and enthusiastic to have women join the technical side of the industry. Without making ridiculous stereotypes, which this might be, I have had clients - male and female - who said they feel more comfortable working with a woman in the mastering capacity for various reasons.
Emily Lazar
#72. I think the real test is to plan something and be able to carry it out to the very end. Not that you're always enthusiastic; it's just that you have to get this thing out. It's not done with one's emotions; it's done with the head.
Richard Estes
#73. Keep moving; don't stop by to check on whoever else is not willing to go. The entire road is yours to speed on till you get there. Never be discouraged!
Israelmore Ayivor
#74. There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#75. I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.
Beverly Cleary
#76. First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
Brian Mulroney
#77. Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.
Margaret Mahy
#78. To be honest, I really enjoy the chance to meet the fans because I've found with 'The Hobbit,' the fans are all really lovely and enthusiastic.
Dean O'Gorman
#79. The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.
Eckhart Tolle
#80. Fucking hell, Livy. If you're going to nab a decent bloke, then you need to be a little more enthusiastic." She's
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#81. Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Christian D. Larson
#82. We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control
Shaka Smart
#83. I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return.
Eric Snow
#84. Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!
Bette Midler
#85. The successful recruit must be empathetic. This condition rules out the sadistic, the vengeful, and the enthusiastic. Therefore, many of the garden-variety killers who applied so far have had no chance of success, especially those who are already behind bars.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#86. Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. It is difficult to be creative and enthusiastic about anything for which we do not feel affection.
David Whyte
#88. Sarah is the most enthusiastic cynical person on the planet. She'd be the perfect cheerleader if she weren't so disgusted by the notion of school spirit.
Jandy Nelson
#89. It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.
Hjalmar Branting
#90. Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again ... But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?
Judy Woodruff
#92. The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example ... Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.
John Foley
#93. You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time ...
the habit takes over.
Zig Ziglar
#94. In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
Robert Genn
#95. People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
Alfie Kohn
#96. We cannot be pepped up and enthusiastic about doing something exciting and feel dragged down by worry at the very same time. One kind of emotion drives out the other.
Dale Carnegie
#97. Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.
Angela Merkel
#98. I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather.
Hillary Clinton
#99. As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.
Duke Of Wellington
#100. I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.
Pete Seeger
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