Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.
Sometimes you get so frustrated that things aren't working out, you say, 'Let me step away for a while.' But the fire still burns.
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.