It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

It may well be that if mankind could draw up a hedonistic balance sheet the pleasures of mundane existence would turn out to be greater than its sufferings.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

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

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

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

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk.

It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.

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.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.