"Enthusiasm"❓

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the hidden side of things. They bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words of our language—the word ‘enthusiasm’—’en’ ‘theos’—a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.—Louis Pasteur

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek. It means being ‘filled with spirit’ or ‘G_d in us.’ It lifts other people. When we are enthusiastic, we usually have an idea, vision or project that is giving us energy. When this happens others are often attracted and want to be part of that which we are creating. Charisma is not limited to a few gifted people. Charisma is the energy that is manifest in each of us when we chose to do that thing the universe has prepared us to do. When we make the choice to contribute, we attract people into a new, higher order of community. Even in the midst of the most secular hierarchy, people begin to share energy and potential escalates.—Robert E. Quinn

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.—Vince Lombardi

We are free in any situation to focus our attention as we see fit. In the short run, how we focus our attention determines what we achieve. In the long run it determines who we become. If we hold an image of a result we want to create, our behaviors will begin to align with our mental picture. Our picture becomes a stabilized point of potential and our energy begins to organize around the picture. We begin to develop hope and enthusiasm. That hope and enthusiasm gives us the capacity to persist in the learning process that is necessary for the aspiration to materialize.—Robert Quinn

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.—Winston Churchill

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.—Theodore Roosevelt

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.—Pele

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.—Michael LeBeuf

You can’t climb up to the second floor without a ladder… When you set your aim too high and don’t fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that’s reasonable, and then gradually raise it.—Emil Zatopek

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

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.—Dale Carnegie