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There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but... in successful lives i...

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Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous an...

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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel...

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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you say what you've got to say a...

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Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently ma...

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Only passions great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the do...

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You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing a special ...

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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it w...

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I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of t...

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Geoff DyerAnother Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. ...

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Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of t...

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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

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Henry David ThoreauA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and go...

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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occa...

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Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.

Someone's always saying "It's not whether you win or lose " but if you feel that way you're as goo...

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To sing is to love and affirm to fly and soar to coast into the hearts of the people who listen t...

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O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you And write by inward magic charm'd A...

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A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

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John MuirThe Wilderness World of John Muir

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. I...

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Joseph CampbellPathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a wh...

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Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all ...

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Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this ...

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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire women will like him.

People who never get carried away should be.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impr...

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When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audi...

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Martin SheenAlong the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Human nature if it healthy demands excitement and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement ...

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No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others at least at the actual moment of meeting...

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I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and n...

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Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlar...

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The world belongs to the energetic.

Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are in...

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

It is energy the central element of which is will that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ...

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Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthu...

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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

The real difference between men is energy.

The real difference between men is energy.

The real difference between men is energy.

The real difference between men is energy.

The real difference between men is energy.

The real difference between men is energy.

The real difference between men is energy.

The real difference between men is energy.

In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; ...

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Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy is success in life.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in...

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Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

There is only one big thing-desire. And before it when it is big all is little.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...

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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ....

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Zeal will do more than knowledge.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the me...

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The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to sh...

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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't ac...

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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Our passions are ourselves.

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm ...

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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life.