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 prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.
I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.
Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
Little by little, one travels far
In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.
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