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Enthusiasm Quotes - Page 9

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

Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.36, Pickle Partners Publishing

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.58, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

"Notes of Thought". Book by Charles Buxton and John Llewelyn Davies, 1873.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.213

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.54, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.

Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.433

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1839). “On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each”, p.223