Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm Quotations

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success..

Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.