It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
Loretta Young

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
Walter Ulbricht

Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
Fritz Kreisler

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
Bela Lugosi

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
Alban Berg

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
Jack Schwartz

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
Sally Kirkland

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve Irwin

My strength is my enthusiasm.
Placido Domingo

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
James Anthony Froude

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.
Ronald Harwood

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
Robert Schumann

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
Herbert Croly

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
Arne Jacobsen

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.
Edward B. Butler