Enthusiasm for Life, Love, and Living

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists and must be hunted for and found. Joan Baez

Energy is equal to desire and purpose. Sheryl Adams

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. Bertrand Russell

When his enthusiasm goes, he's through as a player. Pete Rose

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. Ivern Ball

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 in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. Ernest Newman

You have a choice in this world. You can accept your life as it is, or you can work hard to turn it into the life that you want. The choice is yours. Do not fool yourself. Although all of your wishes may not come to pass, it is not true that life is holding you down. If you want it, you must work. The work starts today. Rouse yourself. Do not let today pass.

Grandma Moses on life and work

I look back on my life like a good day's work. It is done, and I am satisfied with it.

Grandma Moses

Claude McDonald

What isn't tried won't work.
Claude McDonald


Good old Claude. Short, sweet, and to the point.

"Nuff said.

Goethe

Everybody wants to be somebody. Nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success takes work, unless you get lucky and win the lottery. I would retire tomorrow if I bought a million-dollar ticket. But that will only happen to a very small group. Most of us will have to put in the sweat if we want to see results.

No man has any right to ask for more than your best, but you should never settle for less than it.
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Mickey Rooney

You always pass failure on your way to success.
Mickey Rooney

Ah, the Mickster knows what he is doing. He was a small-time actor. He became the biggest draw in the world. Then he was a has-been. And finally, he made his way back into some important pictures.

What would have happened if he had given up along the way? He wouldn't have enjoyed the many successes of his career.

If you want success, you must keep fighting the good fight. You don't have to win each and every day. Mickey sure didn't. Sometimes life is hard, hard, hard.

But if you don't keep trying, you will never succeed. You deserve success as much as anybody else. I want you to win. To do that, you must try.
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