ENTHUSIASM

Related Subjects: Energy, Youth, Zeal

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

2. Great designs are not accomplished without enthusiasm of some sort. It is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.—C. N. BOVEE
   

3. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.—BULWER-LYTTON, The Last Days of Pompeii
   

4. Rash enthusiasm in good society
   Were nothing but a moral inebriety.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

5. Enlist the interests of stern morality and religious enthusiasm in the cause of political liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.—COLERIDGE
   

6. No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
   Till half mankind were, like himself, possest.—COWPER
   

7. Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.—DISRAELI
   

8. Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understandings are warped with enthusiasm; for they judge all actions and their causes by their own perverse principles, and a crooked line can never be the measure of a straight one.—DRYDEN
   

9. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.—EMERSON, Circles
   

10. Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.—EMERSON
    

11. The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.—B. C. FORBES, Forbes Epigrams

12. Enthusiasts soon understand each other.—WASHINGTON IRVING
    

13. The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.—WILLIAM MCFEE, Casuals of the Sea
    

14. No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.—J. R. SEELEY
    

15. The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies "God in us."—MME. DE STAEL