Quotes About Zeal

He's on fire alright, but sometimes that kind of fire can burn churches down.

The way to become enthusiastic is to act with enthusiasm.

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.

people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.

These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!

Girls of that age, though, do become enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever they can.

Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

If someone else made 'Up in the Air' or 'Thank You For Smoking' or 'Juno,' I would have wanted to rip their head off. I need that same sort of passion for every project I take on.

Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success.

Now, shouts of "Dieu li volt!" (God wills it!) began to spread through the crowd, and men began to cut up cloaks and other pieces of cloth to make crosses and sew them against their chests. Everyone agreed that the next year they would set out for the Holy Land. And they did.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

My hints had, undoubtedly and unintentionally, made her feel insecure, guilty, inadequate, afraid that she was losing whatever it was that turned me on; in short, it aroused all the self-doubt so readily awakened in women after thousands of years of servitude. Hence my zeal in denying the effects of time was abetted by Laura's complicity.

Obviously, I wasn't mistaking cathedrals for custard, but, having been raised among the kites of 'that crazy old Fleury,' I had a soft spot for anything that allows a man to give the best of himself.

Live God LOUD!

Well, say, this beats croquet. There's more go about it!

The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm

I know thy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot; I would that thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel that we already know something in its totality, then we fail to keep our ears and eyes open to that which may expand or even changes that which we so zealously think we know.

It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

The secret of success is a pleasant personality with a sincere enthusiastic attitude.