Quotes about Excitement

Enthusiasm, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Ambrose Bierce, American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist (1842–1914)

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
Truman Capote, American author (1924-1984)

I feel myself quite wild with excitement.
Bram Stoker, Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
Jack Canfield, American writer and motivational speaker

Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads, and the strength that leads men on and up, in the great struggles of scientific pursuit, of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty and makes a pleasure of duty.
William Croswell Doane, American bishop (1832–1913)

The literal meaning of enthusiasm is 'infected with the god' — and if you can share that fire of yours to light someone else's, that's a great thing.
Neil Peart, Canadian-American drummer (1952–2020)

Enthusiasm is commitment made visible.
Shane Parrish, Canadian author and Farnam Street blogger

I want excitement; and I don’t care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (1896–1940)

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing do it with all your might. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher (1803–1882)

Cus talked with such enthusiasm because enthusiasm is contagious and people will do things when they get enthused.
Mike Tyson, American boxer and media personality (born 1966)

Enthusiasm is achieved chiefly by means of provocations. In these cases, something inside of us resonates vibrantly with something outside. / The form of the provocation—be it book, music, sporting event, conversation—matters insofar as it might help to us find these sources of resonance.
Carson Cistulli, American poet and writer

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus—it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, British statesman and author (1803–1873)

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher (1803–1882)

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
Charlotte Brontë, British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired.
William Collins, English poet, born 1721