Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!
- Topic: Adversity, Enthusiasm, Life
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.
It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.
Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.
There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.