Quotes About

Enthusiasm

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Exuberance is better than taste.

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Aldous Huxley

There is nothing so easy but it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

— Terence

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Arthur J. Balfour

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Bertrand Russell

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

— William McFee

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest.

— Ecclesiastes 9:10

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

— Andrew Carnegie

You can’t sweep people off their feet if you can’t be swept off yours.

— Clarence Day

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

— Harvey Cushing

Indifference may not wreck a man’s life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

— Bliss Carman

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

— George Santayana

Human passion is the hallucination of a distempered mind.

— William Whipper

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

— Helena Rubinstein

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Quotes About Emotions

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

— Polly Adler

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we have to express.

— E. M. Forster

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

— Marjorie Holmes

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

— Geoffrey Parsons

I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours.  But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places.  Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

— Harry Overstreet

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

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Quotes About Embarrassment

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them ashamed.

— Jonathan Swift

Man is the only animal that blushes.  Or needs to.

— Mark Twain

Blushing fulfills a most important function in propagation of the human species and is all the more interesting because it is involuntary and shows a readiness to be courted.

— Joseph Sandler

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Quotes About Cynicism

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one.  He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin and never seeing a noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and delusion, just as effectively as bombs.

— Kenneth Clark

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman’s substitute for conscience.  It is the communicator’s substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer for self-respect.

— Russell Lynés

A cynic is a man who, when he smells the flowers, looks around for a coffin.

— H. L. Mencken (attrib.)

 A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

It’s gong to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.

— Kin Hubbard

No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.

— Lily Tomlin

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Quotes About Curiosity

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

— Bernard Baruch

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

— Albert Einstein

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.

— Leonard Rubinstein

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

— Samuel Johnson

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Quotes About Confidence

Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.

— Catherine the Great

If you’re feeling good about you, what you’re wearing outside doesn’t mean a thing.

— Leontyne Price

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life.  With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

— Marcus Garvey

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

— Henry C. Link

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

— Roderick Thorpe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

— Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.

— Clarence B. Randall

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

— Anthony Trollope

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

— Max Lerner

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues

He who has the confidence in himself will lead the rest.

— Horace

If you think you can, you can.  And if you think you can’t, you’re right.

— Mary Kay Ash

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

— Eric Hoffer

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

— Niccol˜ Machiaavelli

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

— G. K. Chesterton

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

— G. K. Chesterton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

— Gustave Flaubert

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Quotes About Anger

No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched.

— George Jean Nathan

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

— Ephesians 4:26

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

— Proverbs 15:1

Anybody can become angry—that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

— Aristotle

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

— Martin Luther

He owned and operated a ferocious temper.

— Thomas Russell Ybarra

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: “Beware.  You will never get out of this world alive.”

— John Steinbeck

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever’s begun in anger ends in shame.

— Benjamin Franklin

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