Enthusiasm Quotes

Most popular enthusiasm quotes

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool. - William McFee quote.
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli quote.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

genius

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

drive leadership ambition

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. - Samuel Johnson quote.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. - Samuel Goldwyn quote.
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
Exuberance is better than taste. - Gustave Flaubert quote.
Exuberance is better than taste.

taste

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley quote.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

genius

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. - Terence quote.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

attitude

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. - Samuel Coleridge quote.
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. - Kin Hubbard quote.
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. - Arthur Balfour quote.
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. - Bertrand Russell quote.
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
— Ecclesiastes 9:10

biblical

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale quote.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. - Andrew Carnegie quote.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

talent

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. - George Santayana quote.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Human passion is the hallucination of a distempered mind.
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
Enthusiasm is more important than any other commodity. It will find solutions when none are apparent, and it will achieve success where none is thought possible.

success

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. - Washington Irving quote.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

eloquence

Enthusiasm is the glory and hope of the world. - A. Bronson Alcott quote.
Enthusiasm is the glory and hope of the world.
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash quote.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

ideas

If you can give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton quote.
If you can give your son only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

proverbs

Enthusiasm, n.  A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward application of experience. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Enthusiasm, n.  A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward application of experience.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. - William Ellery Channing quote.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.  For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self? - Samuel Coleridge quote.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.  For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm. - John Dryden quote.
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

truth

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.
Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
Enthusiasm is a divine possession. - Margaret Elizabeth Sangster quote.
Enthusiasm is a divine possession.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the greatest assets I possess. - Charles M. Schwab quote.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the greatest assets I possess.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us. - Madame de Stael quote.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Enthusiasm is to a person what gasoline is to the engine of an automobile: the vital moving force.
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We grow old by deserting our ideals.  Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi quote.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

attitude determination

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius quote.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.