“Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.”
“Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”
“How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.”
“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.”
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.”
“The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.”
“Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.”
“Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.”
“There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
“In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”
“The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.”
“Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.”
“No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.”
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
“Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”
“Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.”
“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.”
“Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”