Quote: 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. Author: Edward B. Butler
Quote: 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. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer
Quote: If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic. Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer
Quote: All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. Author: William Ellery Channing 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author
Quote: Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence. Author: Henry Chester
Quote: The real secret to success is enthusiasm. Author: Walter Chrysler American Businessman, Founder of Chrysler Motors
Quote: Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
Quote: You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 1873-1954, French Author
Quote: No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. Author: William Cowper 1731-1800, British Poet
Quote: You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. Author: Clarence Day 1874-1935, American Essayist
Quote: Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. Author: Tryon Edwards 1809-1894, American Theologian
Quote: Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: 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. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Quote: People who never get carried away should be. Author: Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman
Quote: 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. Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. Author: James A. Froude 1818-1894, British Historian
Quote: Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. Author: Conrad Hilton 1887-1979, American Hotelier, Businessman, Founder, Hilton Hotels
Quote: 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. Author: I Ching 12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes
Quote: The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: 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. Author: Lewis H. Lapham 1935-, American Essayist, Editor
Quote: Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. Author: Reggie Leach 1950-, Canadian Hockey Player
Quote: When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm. Author: Vince Lombardi 1913-1970, American Football Coach
Quote: 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. Author: Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
Quote: The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool. Author: William Mcfee
Quote: Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. Author: Earl Nightingale 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker
Quote: No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm. Author: John Lord O'Brian
Quote: 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. Author: Akhenaton BC -~1375, Egyptian King, Monotheist
Quote: Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. Author: Minna Antrim 1861-18?, American Epigrammist
Quote: Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm. Author: Ralph Archbold American Speaker, Entertainer, Performer, ''Portrays Ben Franklin''
Quote: The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. Author: H. W. Arnold
Quote: 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. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: Enthusiasm moves the world. Author: Arthur James Balfour 1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister
Quote: If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Author: Bruce Barton 1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive
Quote: In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. Author: Pele Brazilian Soccer Star
Quote: A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. Author: Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman
Quote: Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. Author: David Seabury American Doctor, Author
Quote: No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. Author: Sir John Robert Seeley
Quote: Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: 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. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. Author: Germaine De Stael 1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
Quote: How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God. Author: James Stalker
Quote: National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius. Author: Tuckerman
Quote: Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match! Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Enthusiasm is contagious. You can start an epidemic. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Enthusiasm is the Spirit of God working with you. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. Author: John Wesley 1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism