Zeal Quotes · Page 2

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

— Alexander Pope

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

— Samuel Johnson

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

— Richard Baxter

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

— Joseph Heller

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

— Thomas Fuller

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.

— Dale Ahlquist

“You know your Bible too well and life too little.”

— Richard Llewellyn

If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.

— R. A. Torrey

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

— Thomas a Kempis

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

— Hosea Ballou

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on…

— Tami Hoag

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal,…

— J. K. Bharavi

“The beauty of your mind depends on the "make-ups" you use to feed it. A "can-do-spirit" is the best cosmetic. It never…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.

— D. A. Carson

I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

— Dana Goldstein

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

— Confucius

In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire…

— Hugh Nibley

Disciplined runners consistently clear their heads and focus fully on the journey ahead.. .because their passion and zeal for the goal supersedes…

— Priscilla Shirer

The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy…

— David Jeremiah

The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which…

— Alexander Hamilton

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and…

— Isaac of Nineveh

Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True…

— John Newton

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that…

— Winston Churchill

Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There will never Queen sit in my seat with more zeal to my country, care to my subjects and that will sooner…

— Elizabeth I

The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism.…

— Robert Anton Wilson

A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are…

— Joseph Addison

As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or…

— Paul Watzlawick

But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments…

— Eusebius

The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of…

— Grover Cleveland

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

— John Newton

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

— Hugh Nibley

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

— Friedrich Schiller

False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.

— Charles Tomlinson

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

— Marquis de Sade

“Zeal promotes determination in absence of lazyness.”

— Anonymous

What can't change is the zeal and passion I have for work.

— Pratik Gandhi