When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
- Topic: Enthusiasm, Optimism, Purpose
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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.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!
Aloha is free.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?
What we do now echoes in eternity.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.
When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
