"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Great Tags: enthusiasm, mother More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." "I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons." "The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom." More In Great "Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that’s why I don’t have a boyfriend."― Lucy Liu "What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them."― Henry Ford "Great countries are those that produce great people."― Benjamin Disraeli