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

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 moves the world.
Arthur Balfour

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
Bo Bennett

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 A. Baldwin

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

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
Wilfred Owen

From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.
Graeme Le Saux

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
Bryant H. McGill

Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.
John Kluge

He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
Macaulay Culkin

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Jim Valvano

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
Frederick Reines

I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.
Andy Pick

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin