Quotations about Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. ~ John Christian Bovee
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. ~ Minna Antrim
Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. ~ Bishop William Warburton
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~ Charles Buxton
The world belongs to the energetic. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm moves the world. ~ Arthur James Balfour
Enthusiasm goes out. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best thing which we derive from history is the enthusiasm that it raises in us. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Practice being excited. ~ Bill Foster
There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm. ~ Lord Shaftesbury
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
There is eloquence in true enthusiasm. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. ~ William Ellery Channing
Enthusiasm is the fever of reason. ~ Victor Hugo
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure. ~ David Ambrose
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. ~ Tryon Edwards
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action. ~ Henry Chester
Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life? ~ Louis Auchincloss
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ~ Anatole France
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. ~ Edward Appleton
Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm. ~ Edmund Burke
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. ~ Edward B. Butler
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~ Charles Kingsley
People who never get carried away should be. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~ Dale Carnegie
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can’t sweep other people off their feet, if you can’t be swept off your own. ~ Clarence Day
Vigor is contagious; and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence. ~ Henry Chester
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. ~ William Cowper
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. ~ Sir Arthur Helps
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real secret to success is enthusiasm. ~ Walter Chrysler
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm… Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it, there are only alibis. ~ Henry Ford
Enthusiasts soon understand each other. ~ Washington Irving
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Enthusiasm is the breath of genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability… it is energy. ~ Thomas Arnold
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity; and truth accomplishes no victories without it. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Enthusiasm for one’s goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. ~ Thomas Eakins
Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. ~ Charles M. Schwab
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way, an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body. ~ William Hazlitt
My enthusiasms… constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future. ~ E.M. Cioran
Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. ~ Joseph Roux
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. ~ Dale Carnegie
What we love, we shall grow to resemble. ~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Success produces success, just as money produces money. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm. ~ Joseph Addison
If you can give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. ~ Bruce Barton
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic. ~ Dale Carnegie
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. ~ James Baldwin
Be not afraid of enthusiasm; you need it; you can do nothing effectually without it. ~ Francois Pierre G. Guizot
Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Archbold
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world. ~ Madame de Stael
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment. ~ William Howard Taft
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. ~ Bishop William Warburton
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~ Winston Churchill
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~ Henry David Thoreau
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. ~ Bruce Barton
Enthusiasm Makes the Difference. ~ Book preview