There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
- Topic: Age, Enthusiasm
- Location: Hana, Hawaii, Maui
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
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The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
Old age is no place for sissies.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.
Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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.
I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.