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?
I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.
Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more powerful the 'what for' is.
Action often precedes the feeling.
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
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