Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

Years may wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry fear self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

While we are focusing on fear worry or hate it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness enthusiasm or love.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

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.

Of course Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

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.

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

Back of every creation supporting it like an arch is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes then miracles occur.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain to live with it to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

If you can give your child only one gift let it be enthusiasm.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself if you wish to get others.