"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." ~ Winston Churchill
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. ~ Edward Appleton, Maximum Strength Parenting
A person can succeed at anything for which there is enthusiasm. ~ Charles M. Schwab
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
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
The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm. Pablo Picasso
Enthusiasm is faith set on fire. ~ George Adams
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never by satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile. ~ Walter Chrysler, IBD, 6/11/04
The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose. ~ Richard Leider, Power of Purpose
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony." ~ Beethoven
