Quotes About

Enthusiasm

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Exuberance is better than taste.

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Aldous Huxley

There is nothing so easy but it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

— Terence

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 Bulwer-Lytton

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

— Kin Hubbard

It is unfortunate, considering enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

— Arthur J. Balfour

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

— Samuel Johnson

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

— Bertrand Russell

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

— William McFee

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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

— Andrew Carnegie

You can’t sweep people off their feet if you can’t be swept off yours.

— Clarence Day

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

— Harvey Cushing

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.

— Bliss Carman

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

— George Santayana

Human passion is the hallucination of a distempered mind.

— William Whipper

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

— Helena Rubinstein