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Enthusiasm Quotes

  • Feb 16, 2022
  • 7 min read

Updated: Mar 18, 2022

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

Gordon Parks


Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Thoreau


Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale


Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

Henry Chester


An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.



The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J Watson Sr


Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet, it is one of the most contagious.



Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.

Orison Swett Marden


Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Robert Schumann


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


Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Watterson Lowe


There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Edgar Allan Poe


Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

John Muir


If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie


Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Dale Carnegie


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

John Wesley


When the technique doesn’t arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.

Antonio Conte


My enthusiasms…constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

E M Cioran


If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Wayne Dyer


Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Bo Bennett


If you have ever felt such tremendous enthusiasm and desire for something that you would gladly spend all your waking hours working on it, that you would happily do without pay, then you have found your passion.



Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful and unique resources available to you. It is arguably the only type of energy that you harness by yourself and at the same time, intensifies as it is consumed.

John Baskin


Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Benjamin Disraeli


Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Robert Schumann


Living a daring life is zealous pursuit.

Lailah Gifty Akita


Enthusiasm gives energy to make an effort.

Lailah Gifty Akita


The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

Walter Chrysler


In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm...in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Goethe


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

Charles Schwab


Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I’ve got enthusiasm. I’ve got desire. I’ve got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

Pete Rose


If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton


Enthusiasm is the foundation of a Pleasing Personality, and you must have such a personality in order to influence others to cooperate with you.

Napoleon Hill


The enthusiastic person will find ways around any setbacks, they may fall down, but they are quick to stand up again.

Catherine Pulsifer


Finding a way to cultivate enthusiasm for your work may be one of the most beneficial things for you to do in regards to boosting productivity.

Noel N


Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

Howard Thurman


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill


One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

E M Forster


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

Emerson


When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W Clement Stone


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

Dale Carnegie


Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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

Aldous Huxley


Enthusiasm moves the world.

Arthur Balfour


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

Pele


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

Emerson


Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

H Jackson Brown Jr


Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Edgar Allan Poe


True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Charlotte Bronte


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

Christian Dior


But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot


The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

William Osler


If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Lombardi


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

Johnson


Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm.

Emerson


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


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


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

Tryon Edwards


Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Mignon McLaughlin


Effort is concentrated energy.

Lailah Gifty Akita


The best excitement is enthusiasm.

Lailah Gifty Akita


Enthusiasm with persistent effort is a seed of success.

Lailah Gifty Akita


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

Norman Vincent Peale


Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes - another for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success of his life.

Edward B Butler


Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

Gordon Parks


The dictionary defines enthusiasm as having 'intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval' for something. I tweak it a bit by defining enthusiasm as sustaining high energy with a positive anticipation for what's about to take place.

John Baskin


Enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare.

Angela Duckworth


Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing do it with all your might. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective.

Emerson


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.

Beethoven


I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves, I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Leo Buscaglia


Having carefully observed people over many years, I am convinced that the fortunate individuals who achieve the most in life are invariably activated by enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale


A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Mary Kay Ash


Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale


I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Queen Elizabeth II


Now there’s only one way to ensure you’re enthusiastic about what you’ve chosen to do, with the ultimate aim of achieving success, and that is simply doing something you love doing.

Jonathan Mills


Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all you might.

Emerson


If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin


The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Thomas J Watson Sr


Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.

Susan Rabin


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

John Christian Bovee


Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Benjamin Disraeli


Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie


Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

Dale Carnegie


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

Clarence Day


No matter how carefully you plan your goals, they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

W Clement Stone


You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

Henry Ford


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