Enthusiasm & Success Quotes

You will do
foolish things,
but do them
with enthusiasm!

—Colette

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

—Anais Nin

The loving are the daring.

—Bayard Taylor

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.  

—Bessie Anderson Stanley

Risk is essential.
There is not growth of inspiration
in staying within what is safe
and comfortable.

Once you find out
what you do best,
why not try something else? 

—Alex Noble

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself . 

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. 

—Ella Fitzgerald

It’s never too late to be what you might have been

—George Eliot

In order to succeed,
your desire for success
should be greater
than your fear of failure

—Bill Cosby

I don't know
the key to success,
but the key to failure
is trying
to please everybody.

—Bill Cosby

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself . 

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. 

—Ella Fitzgerald

It’s never too late to be what you might have been

—George Eliot

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

—Giacomo Puccini

Inspiration demands that active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.  

—Giorgio Vasari  

Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward. 

—Giuseppe Mazzini

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans -- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves. All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamt would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic and power within it. 

—Goethe

At a purely chemical level, every experience humans find enjoyable - whether listening to music, embracing a lover, or savoring chocolate - amounts to little more than an explosion of dopamine . . . as exhilarating and ephemeral as a firecracker. J

—Madelaine Nash

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

—Michael E. Gerber

All human activity is prompted by desire.

—Russell, Bertrand

If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.  (Hamlet, 5.2.214)

—Shakespeare

I don’t agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

—Tom Stoppard