Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality; he just never connected with you at the intersection. – Criss Jami
Excitement, then, is a defense against anxiety, a transformation of anxiety into something more bearable, a melodrama. – Robert Stoller
The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings. – Bertrand Russell
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. – Denis Waitley
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. – Bo Bennett
The only difference between fear and excitement is your attitude about it. – Unknown
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens
Best not to anticipate too much … it jiggles the possibilities. – Donald Barthelme
We usually get what we anticipate. – Claude M. Bristol
Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun. – E. V. Knox
One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story. – John Hope Franklin
Without leaps of imagination, we lose the excitement of possibilities. – Gloria Steinem
Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. – David Hume
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. – Elbert Hubbard
Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. – Lucy Maud Montgomery
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. – Henry David Thoreau
At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria. – Jerry Coleman
Fear is excitement without breath. – Robert Heller
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns. – Publius Cornelius Tacitus
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow. – Natalia Makarova
Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!. – Tony Robbins
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. – Oscar Wilde
Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. – Marguerite de Valois
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto. – Cormac Mccarthy
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. – George Eliot
Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame. – Patrick Suskind
Think, when your castigated pulse Gies now and then a wallop, What ragings must his veins convulse, That still eternal gallop:. – Robert Burns
Anticipation forward points the view. – Robert Burns
Excitement is an emotion that is very similar to joy or happiness. – Unknown
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. – William Wordsworth
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited, they make a success of their lives. – Walter Chrysler
Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. – Oswald Chambers
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. – Samuel Smiles
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. – Earl Nightingale
The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people. – Amanda Palmer
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. – George Sand
I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile. – Walter Chrysler
After doing so many different roles, if you don’t stretch yourself, there’s no excitement left. – Christine Lahti
Ninety nine percent of what’s wrong with people is not enough excitement. – L. Ron Hubbard
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. – Victor Hugo
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. – Aesop
Follow your excitement and it will never let you down. – Unknown
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. – Oscar Wilde
I feel the need to endanger myself every so often. – Tim Daly
