Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
It's always the challenge of the future, this feeling of excitement, that drives me.
- Yoshihisa Tabuchi
Every person is enthusiastic at times. One person has enthusiasm for 30 minutes; another person has it for 30 days, but it is the person who has it for 30 years who makes a success of life.
- Edward Butler George
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
- Alexander Graham Bell
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
- Edwin H. Stuart
The world belongs to the energetic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
- Earl Nightingale
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Zeal is a volcano, on the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
- Khalil Gibran
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
- Samuel Johnson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really HAPPY is something to be ENTHUSIASTIC about.
- C. Kingsley
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.