Quotes about enthusiasm

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

— Akhenaton

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

— Minna Antrim

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.

— Ralph Archbold

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

— H. W. Arnold

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

Enthusiasm moves the world.

— Arthur James Balfour

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

— Bruce Barton

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

— Ambrose Bierce

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

— Christian Nevell Bovee

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

— Thomas Carlyle

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

— Dale Carnegie

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

— Dale Carnegie

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

— William Ellery Channing

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.

— Henry Chester

The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

— Walter Chrysler

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

— William Cowper

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

— Clarence Day

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

— Benjamin Disraeli

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

— Tryon Edwards

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

— Desiderius Erasmus

People who never get carried away should be.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

— Henry Ford

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

— Anatole France

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

— James A. Froude

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

— Conrad Hilton

He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.

— I Ching

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

— Samuel Johnson

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

— Lewis H. Lapham

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.

— Reggie Leach

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

— Abraham Lincoln

If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

— Vince Lombardi

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

— Og Mandino

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

— William Mcfee

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

— Earl Nightingale

No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.

— John Lord O'Brian

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

— Blaise Pascal

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.

— Norman Vincent Peale

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

— Pele

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

— Charles M. Schwab

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

— David Seabury

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

— Sir John Robert Seeley

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

— Samuel Smiles

It is energy -- the central element of which is will -- that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

— Samuel Smiles

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

— Germaine De Stael

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

— James Stalker

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

— Tuckerman

Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present.

— Source Unknown

Enthusiasm is contagious. You can start an epidemic.

— Source Unknown

Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match!

— Source Unknown

Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

— Source Unknown

Enthusiasm is the Spirit of God working with you.

— Source Unknown

Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.

— Source Unknown

Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.

— Source Unknown

The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

— Source Unknown

Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.

— Source Unknown

Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever.

— Source Unknown

Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

— Source Unknown

Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice.

— Source Unknown

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

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

— John Wesley

If we only say what we feel, then we merely dwell in that which keeps us zeal.

— Anuj Somany