Ambitious Quote by David Hume

Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with aspirit of liberty; as superstition, on the contrary, renders men tame…

— David Hume

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour…

— Thomas Chalmers

Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice.

— Anonymous

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true…

— David Hume

“One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a…

— David Hume

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it;…

— Ernest Holmes

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that…

— James Russell Lowell