Enthusiasm for Life, Love, and Living

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists and must be hunted for and found. Joan Baez

Energy is equal to desire and purpose. Sheryl Adams

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

When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player. Pete Rose

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. Ivern Ball

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. Ernest Newman

You have a choice in this world. You can accept your life as it is, or you can work hard to turn it into the life that you want. The choice is yours. Do not fool yourself. Although all of your wishes may not come to pass, it is not true that life is holding you down. If you want it, you must work. The work starts today. Rouse yourself. Do not let today pass.

Dale Carnegie

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