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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

— Horace Greeley

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

— Bo Bennett

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

— Jerome Lawrence

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

— Avan Jogia

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

— Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

— Bryant H. McGill

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

— Blaise Pascal

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

— Murray Gell-Mann

What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?

— Orison Swett Marden

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