Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
Interpretation
Enthusiasm is essential for achieving great accomplishments.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes that enthusiasm is a crucial driving force behind any significant movement or achievement in history. It suggests that without passion and enthusiasm, remarkable successes are unlikely to occur, reinforcing the idea that a positive and energetic attitude is vital for greatness.
In practice
A motivational speech at a conference where enthusiasm is encouraged for new projects.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed
For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.
You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.
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