Thoughts—Enthusiasm	
QUICK CHECK:	
Enthusiasm: Feelings of energy and interest.
Wake up with a smile and go after life . . . live it, 
enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it!     —Joe Knapp
The world belongs to those with energy. —Emerson
If you’re not happy every morning when you get 
up, leave for work, or start to work at home – if 
you’re not enthusiastic about doing that, you’re not 
going to be successful.    —Don Kendall
Success is going from failure to failure without loss 
of enthusiasm.  —Sir Winston Churchill
If you aren't filled with enthusiasm, you'll be fired 
with enthusiasm.    —Vince Lombardi
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense, 
then persistance (stick-to-it), are the qualities that 
make for success.      —Dale Carnegie
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in 
the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
   —Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what 
you’ve always wanted to do so badly.  You almost 
feel like you could fly without the plane.
    —Charles Lindbergh	
Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of 
others.     —H. Brown, Jr.
Knowledge is power; but enthusiasm pulls the 
switch.    —Irvern Ball
All we need to make us really happy is something to 
be enthusiastic about.    —Charles Kingsley
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 of writing 
(music) with as much regularity as an accountant 
settles down each day to his figures.  They didn’t 
waste time waiting for ideas. —Ernest Newmann
Give me a man who sings at his work.
    —Thomas Carlyle
I am an electric eel in a pool of catfish.
    —Edith Sitwell
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthuiasm. 
  —Samuel Taylor Coleridge	 	
1. Define "enthusiasm." 
2. Emerson:  To whom does the world belong?
3. Churchill:  What is success?
4. Carnegie: What 3 things make for success?
5. Eisenhower:  What counts?
6. Lindbergh:  When do you feel that you can fly 	
without the plane?	
7. Ball:  a) What is power?  b) What pulls switch?
8. Kingsley:  What do we need to make us happy?
9. Newmann:  How did the great composers get 	
inspiration?	
10. Sitwell:  What do you think is meant by this 	
quote?	
11. Franklin:  What 2 things conquer all things?
12. a) Which quote do you like?
 b) Why did you  choose this quote?
Thoughts & Quotes