Enthusiasm

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. ~ Thomas J. Watson

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. You have to be willing to work for it. ~ Jim Valvano

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

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. ~ H. W. Arnold

No one keeps his enthusiasm automaticalty. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. ~ Papyrus
"Exuberance is better than taste." ~ Gustave Flaubert

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire. ~ George Adams

Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps, and the common cold, is highly contagious. ~ Emory Ward

I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to go all the way. I love what I do. ~ Tom Cruise, Reuters, 12/5/03

Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier. ~ Susan Rabin

Keep up your enthusiasm! here is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm. ~ Harry Houdini

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ~ Anatole France

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. ~ Harry S Truman

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

Every production of genius must be a production of enthusiasm. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." ~ Winston Churchill

A person can succeed at anything for which there is enthusiasm. ~ Charles M. Schwab

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony."  ~ Beethoven

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.  ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ~ George Sand

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm. Pablo Picasso

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire. ~ George Adams

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never by satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile. ~ Walter Chrysler