Zeal Quotes

224 Zeal quotes by 186 unique authors

My hat is in the ring. — Theodore Roosevelt
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their… — Samuel Adams
Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation… — Charles Caleb Colton
Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find. — John Greenleaf Whittier
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. — Mahatma Gandhi
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. — Khalil Gibran
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. — Leonardo da Vinci
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. — Tacitus
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted… — James Wolcott
There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual… — Brian Kolodiejchuk
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of… — Carl Sagan
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will… — Abigail Adams
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt… — Mahatma Gandhi
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and… — Marcus Aurelius
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism,… — Aldous Huxley
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in… — Alex Garland
There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows. — David Sedaris
As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just… — Dante Alighieri
What was it that made this human love so much more desirable to me than the love of my own kind? Was it because it… — Stephenie Meyer
Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be… — Jason Mraz
That's when it happens. Maybe it was my argument. Maybe it was my scary zeal. Whatever the reason, as soon as Megan whistles, the crowd… — Cynthia Leitich Smith
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. — Michel de Montaigne
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for… — Ludwig von Mises
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. — Thomas Carlyle
Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time. " I turned and met the amused eyes of Christian Ozera, a onetime annoyance… — Richelle Mead

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