Mary Kay Ash on enthusiasm
Mary Kay Ash93 quotes“If you act enthusiastic, you will become enthusiastic. A mediocre mind that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.”
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Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Dare to risk public criticism.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it’s too late.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash An average person with average talents and average ambition can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society; if that person has clear focused goals.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash People fall forward to success.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Fear is faith that it won’t work.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash I believe that work if often the best antidote for grief.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash There is a way; Up, Around, Over or Through.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash
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The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
Alberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
A. B. SimpsonA. B. Simpson Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller I’m enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.
Jason StathamJason Statham There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.
Carlos SantanaCarlos Santana How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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