Quotes about Enthusiasm

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

Starbucks was delivering more value than just coffee; they were delivering a sense of sophistication and enthusiasm about life.

Worst of all, there are hundreds of young unestablished believers who are so infected with the same love of excitement, that they actually think it a duty to be always seeking it. Insensibly almost to themselves, they take up a kind of hysterical, sensational, sentimental Christianity, until they are never content with the "old paths," and, like the Athenians, are always running after something new.

Anything is better than apathy, stagnation, deadness, and indifference.

Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don't have any faith.

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

In a small, independent organization, these small wins will generate energy and enthusiasm. In the mainstream, they would generate skepticism about whether we should even be in the business. I want my organization's customers to answer the question of whether we should be in the business. I don't want to spend my precious managerial energy constantly defending our existence to efficiency analysts in the mainstream.