Enthusiasm moves the world.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.