The Greeks have given us
one of the most beautiful words in our language,
the word "enthusiasm" a god within.
-Louis Pasteur

Enthusiasm, from Theos - God - "to fill with God",
is something we generate from our wellspring...
We become the fountain of enthusiasm.
-Shaun de Warren

The sense of this word among the Greeks
affords the noblest definition of it:
enthusiasm signifies God in us.
-Madame de Stael

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life.
-Gordon Parks

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith
that has been set afire.
-George Matthew Adams

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

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling
whose flash I admire wherever I see it.
-Charlotte Bronte

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

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.
-Henry Ford

Enthusiasm is the yeast
that raises the dough.
-Paul J. Meyer

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
-Elbert Hubbard

Enthusiasm is a vital element
towards the individual success of every man or woman.
-Conrad Hilton

A person can succeed at anything

for which there is enthusiasm.

-Charles M. Schwab

I rate enthusiasm
even above professional skill.
-Edward Victor Appleton

No person who is enthusiastic about his work
has anything to fear from life.
All the opportunities in the world
are waiting to be grasped by people
who are in love with what they are doing.
-Samuel Goldwyn

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit
which hovers over the production of genius.
-Isaac D'Israeli

Each production of genius
must be the production of enthusiasm.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Man never rises to great truths
without enthusiasm.
-Vauvenargues

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value,
so long as we are not carried away by it.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we not not enthusiastic, we can't get things done.
If we're over-enthusiastic,
we run into the danger of being fanatical.
-Woodrow Wyatt

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage,
and grow wiser and more serene.
-William Ellery Channing

The world belongs to the enthusiast
who keeps his cool.
-William McFee

All we really need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
-Charles Kingsley

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Enthusiasm itself is the fruit of enthusiasm.
-Chidvilasananda

Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
-Washington Irving

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

Some kind of widespread enthusiasm or excitement
is apparently needed for the realization of vast and rapid change.
-Eric Hoffer

Enthusiasm moves the world.
-Arthur James Balfour

Enthusiasm is the thing that makes the world go round.
Without its driving power, nothing worth doing has ever been done.
Love, friendship, religion, altruism, devotion to career or hobby -
all of these, and most of the other good things in life,
are forms of enthusiasm.
-Robert H. Schauffler

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world
is a triumph of enthusiasm.
Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
-Ralph Waldo 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 G. Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm reflects confidence, spreads good cheers,
raises morale, inspires associates, rouses loyalty
and laughs at adversity.
-Allan Cox

Enthusiasm is a divine possession.
-Margaret E. Sanger

The luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings
is called enthusiasm.
-Friedrich von Schlegel

In enthusiasm we undulate to the divine spiritus -
as the lake to the wind.
-Henry David Thoreau

Enthusiasm gives life
to what is invisible.
-Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

Be enthusiastic till it thrills you.
Display it, radiate it,
till if infects all those around you.
-Homi Kharas

There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
-Henry Moore

Enthusiasm makes the difference.
-Charles E. Jones