Enthusiasm Quotes

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, all is defeated, except wealth and power.[Alternate translation:]When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.[Quand une fois on a tourné l’enthousiasme en ridicule, on a tout défait, excepté l’argent et le pouvoir.]

The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm, though the seed of every high heroic deed, each pious sacrifice – its lot is scorn, from those who feel it not.[L’enthousiasme en tout genre est ridicule pour qui ne l’éprouve pas.]

Enthusiasm signifies ‘God in us.’[L’enthousiasme signifie Dieu en nous.]

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

Any one who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.