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Quotations regarding 'Zest'

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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Christian Dior, French Designer (1905-1957)

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

Antonia Fraser, British Author (1932- )

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

Winston Graham, English Novelist (1908-2003)

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Simon Newcomb, Canadian Mathematician (1835-1909)

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman (1898-1993)

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Branch Rickey, American Athlete (1881-1965)

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist (1900-1944)

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist (1900-1944)

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