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Excitement is a feeling of eagerness and enthusiasm

• Excitement: A feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness.  Oxford Dictionary
• Excited: Feeling very happy and enthusiastic.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Excite: Stirred emotionally. Dictionary.com
• Excited: Having, showing, or characterized by a heightened state of energy, enthusiasm, eagerness.  Merriam Webster
• Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.  Bo Bennett
• Passion, Enthusiasm, Anticipation,  Expectation,  Surprise,  Enjoyment,  Adventure,  Joy

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Excitement is an energy that fuels motivation and passion

• Your passion is the most powerful expression of who you are as a unique individual. Passion brings inspiration, excitement, clarity and purpose to your life and work. Peter Wallman
• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Oprah Winfrey
• Personal Motivation — What really excites people —the vision, values, goals, hopes, desires, and passion that make up their priorities. Stephen Covey
• 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
• You’ll never sustain any action for long if you hate doing it. Change course to something you’re more excited about, and things will get easier. Leo Babauta
• Energy management,  Motivation,  Passion

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The desire and need for excitement is deep-seated in us 

• Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life. Steve Chandler
• The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings. Bertrand Russell 
• Find something to get excited about. Danielle LaPorte
• Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. William James
• Sometimes we are fed not by food but by the energy in our lives. These moments and feelings demonstrate that everything is food. We take in thousands of experiences of life that can fulfil us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. We hunger for play, fun, touch, romance, intimacy, love, achievement, success, art, music, self- expression, leadership, excitement, adventure and spirituality. All of these elements are essential forms of nourishment. Joshua Rosenthal
• Don’t you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it? Juliet Marillier
• I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the coloured arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. Sylvia Plath
• I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over. David Hockney
• Desire,  Human needs

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Excitement is a practical synonym for happiness 

• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your “passion” or your “bliss,” I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. Tim Ferris
• Happiness

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Approach life as an exciting adventure 

• Make excitement your only compass. Jamie Catto
• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.  William Orville
• Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. Irving Wallace
• I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. Leo Tolstoy
• There is no doubt that life can be a bumpy ride. But so were those roller coasters you loved as a kid. Savor the adventure.  Find excitement in the uncertainty and the constant change.  Even let a touch of fear add spice to your life – as you did on that roller coaster.  Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• When we view life with a spirit of adventure and look for the excitement that comes with change, it predisposes us to love life with its endless variety of thrills and challenges. Jonathan Wells
• You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life. A.L. Williams
• Adventure

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Look for the excitement in each day 

• I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: “What is my exciting thing for today?” Then, I do the day. Don’t ask me about tomorrow. Barbara Jordan
• If there isn’t something in your life that makes you wake up curious and excited to start the day, you will never be a powerful person. Passion is what fuels the jet engine propelling you toward a meaningful existence. Dr. Phil

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Get excited about your dreams and goals 

• The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?” Tim Ferris
• 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
• Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present. Robert Conklin
• Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
• We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had. Coleman Young
• Dreams make you click, juice you, turn you on, excite the living daylights out of you. You cannot wait to get out of bed to continue pursuing your dream. The kind of dream I’m talking about gives meaning to your life. It is the ultimate motivator. Jim Collins
• The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words. Lailah Gifty Akita
• Dreams,  Goal setting

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Get excited about challenges 

• Contained exhilaration is not nearly as exciting as its release… accept challenge! What excitement do you have to share with the world?  Lorii Myers
• It’s always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me. Yoshihisa Tabuchi
• They sicken of the calm who know the storm. Dorothy Parker
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Get excited about your purpose; your path

• Passion is the inner excitement of being on the right path, doing what feels good to you and what you know you are meant to do. Wayne Dyer
• There is no right path. Only the one that allows you to sleep soundly and wake up excited. Jennifer Louden
• Each day has its own purpose and fits into the great plan of our lives. This very moment carries traces of our life purpose in places where we focus our attention, in words or ideas that bring a tingle of excitement and hope in our heart. Carol Adrienne
• There is something deep within you that knows what you are here to do and the direction you must move in to find your authentic work. To follow this path is to be an authentic leader. It is your birthright. You were born with unique gifts and with a sense of excitement about contributing to the world. Eric Klein
• When you follow your bliss, you live in a constant space of joy. You open yourself to the abundance of the Universe. You’re excited to share your life with those you love, and your excitement, your passion, your bliss become contagious. Lisa Nichols
• Purpose,  Follow your path

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Get excited about your work

• 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
• 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
• Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies. Sir Ken Robinson
• Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. Donald Trump
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Get excited about creativity 

• The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. Henry Moore
• Creativity

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Get excited about ideas

• Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Ray Bradbury
• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn’t and that is exactly why we do. Brigid Lowry
• Ideas

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Like a kid, get excited about the wondrous world we live in

• If a child is to keep alive his or her inborn sense of wonder, he or she needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with the child the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Rachel Carson
• Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead. Richard Bach
• It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. David Attenborough
• Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year. Charlotte Eriksson
• Wonder

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Get excited about intuition

• It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely upon it. It’s my partner. Jonas Salk
• Intuition

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Get excited about the future

• Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work’s important, family’s important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You’re cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what’s coming. Nicholas Sparks
• The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It’s not testing you. It’s benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation. Abraham-Hicks
• It’s always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me. Yoshihisa Tabuchi
• The future

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Get excited about today and this moment of now

• Each day has its own purpose and fits into the great plan of our lives. This very moment carries traces of our life purpose in places where we focus our attention, in words or ideas that bring a tingle of excitement and hope in our heart. Carol Adrienne
• Embrace the gift of today

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Get excited about love

• Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective – life. Ogwo David Emenike
• There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. John Lennon
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Get excited about sex and romance

• Many lovers are ‘off to the races:’ Hurtling towards orgasm, they miss the excitement of sensual meanderings along the way. Alexandra Katehakis
• Romance: The feeling of excitement or mystery that you have from a particular experience or event. Cambridge Dictionary
• Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life. Charles Stanley
• The word “romance,” according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Billy Graham
• Sexuality,  Romance

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Get excited about learning, knowledge and discovery

• Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. William Wirt 
• The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old. Rosalyn S. Yalow
• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. Elizabeth Hardwick
• Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever- present game of knowing. Hank Green
• It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions. Edmund Burke
• The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.
• Learning,  Knowledge,  Discovery

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Get excited about personal growth

• There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Get excited about change

• It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Wallace Stevens
• If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways. Daniel Willey
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Get excited about creating

• The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts. Henry Moore
• Creative expression

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Step into the excitement of the unknown 

• In your willingness to step into the unknown, you will have the wisdom of uncertainty factored in. This means that in every moment of your life, you will have excitement, adventure, mystery. You will experience the fun of life — the magic, the celebration, the exhilaration, and the exultation of your own spirit. Deepak Chopra
• Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. Wendell Berry
• The unknown

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Teaching is about awakening excitement

• The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder. John Garrett
• Teaching

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Leadership is about awakening excitement

• Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they’ve never seen before, something that does not yet exist. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Excitement is married to enthusiasm

• Enthusiasm is more than simple excitement. It also involves affection for the object that arouses it.  The enthusiastic person loves the thing he or she feels excited about, great or small, important or unimportant, a marriage partner or an ice-cream cone.  When one feels enthusiasm, one gives out love, and this–I’m sure–is the indwelling deity that the Greeks had in mind.    Arthur Gordon
• Enthusiasm: Strong excitement about something : a strong feeling of active interest in something that you like or enjoy. Merriam Webster
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Excitement is married to passion

• Passion is the most powerful statement of who you are as a unique individual. Passion brings inspiration, excitement, clarity and purpose into your life. Peter Wallman
• Passion always trumps excuses! Passion is the inner excitement of being on the right path, doing what feels good to you and what you know you are meant to do. It’s my contention that the mere presence of passion within you—and the enthusiasm that comes with it—is all you need to fulfil your dreams. Wayne Dyer
• Watch for signs of excitement. When you engage in an activity you are truly good at, your excitement is visible. When do you feel most engaged? Most energized? Todd Kashdan
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Excitement is married to spontaneity

• The principle of spontaneity and serendipity is the ability to experience life with a sense of adventure, excitement, and fresh rediscovery instead of trying to find a serious side to things that have no serious side. Stephen Covey
• Spontaneity

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Offset excitement with calmness 

• Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. Victor Hugo
• Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. Marguerite de Valois
• 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 
• Calmness

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Transform fear into excitement

• Fear is excitement without breath. Robert Heller
• The only difference between fear and excitement is whether you are breathing. Dan Millman
• The very same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it. Gay Hendricks
• Anxiety is energy that cannot be used now. When you focus that trapped energy on action in the present moment, you release it and experience excitement and effectiveness. Neil Fiore
• How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you’d really like to do?  When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally.  Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone.  The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.  Cheryl Richardson
• The best advice I can give you is to take big, easy breaths when you feel fear. Feel the fear instead of pretending it’s not there. Celebrate it with a big breath, just the way you’d celebrate your birthday by taking a big breath and blowing out all the candles on your cake. Do that, and your fear turns into excitement. Do it more, and your excitement turns into exhilaration. I find it very empowering to know that I’m in charge of the exhilaration I feel as I go through life. I bet you will, too. Gay Hendricks
• Fear

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When it comes to goals and resolutions, keep on going after the initial excitement has gone

• Most people start excited and gush with exuberance but give up at the first pothole or failure. MJ DeMarco
• Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. Cavett Robert
• Perseverance,  Commitment

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• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. Oscar Wilde
• If you can look at a dog and not feel vicarious excitement and affection, you must be a cat.
• It’s well known that men and women are different but it keeps being rediscovered with great excitement. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle- aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. John Ciardi
• Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval. Leonard Rossiter
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me! AJ McLean
• The other night I said to my wife Ruth, ‘Do you feel that the sex and excitement has gone out of our marriage?’ Ruth said, ‘I’ll discuss it with you during the next commercial.   Milton Berle
• The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him. Cher
• There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women… Orson Welles
• Actuary: Someone who cannot stand the excitement of chartered accountancy. Glan Thomas 
• Cleavage: Something which excites disapproval in everyone but the audience.
• For once in my life, I’d like to get up in the morning and be as excited about it as my penis.
• How can you tell if a man is sexually excited? He’s breathing.
• What’s the difference between a new husband and a new dog? After a year, the dog is still excited to see you.

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