Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.