Quotes About Zeal

A passion for something was energy to be exploited, not thwarted.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

What do I most love to do? (I love it so much I can do it for long stretches of time without getting tired or bored.)

Lebendiges! Was nützt der tote Kram!

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

I want to have the strongest work ethic.

I'm an energetic person. I work hard.

Competitive spirit is a driving force that keeps life going with a thrill.

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

A fanatic commits to an ideal to whatever end. A fanatic throws everything aside to pursue their idea. Take something which it would be good to be committed to, like basic human rights. You might campaign for such a thing. You might spend every day of your life pursuing such a thing. But once you become fanatical about it, anything can happen.

Almost the whole life of religious bodies lies in the maintenance of their first fervor.

Unto the boundless Ocean of thy beauty Runs this poor river, charged with streams of zeal: Returning thee the tribute of my duty, Which here my love, my youth, my plaints reveal.

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."

Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action.

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

Ambition is your special ware And you have dared to call it passion.

We choose mania over boredom every time.

Are you sitting comfortably? Then get up. This is no time for sloth.

When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or her way at your own risk.

He also had a gung-ho hairline. It couldn't wait to get started

Never let your zeal for serving Him get ahead of your prayer for seeking Him.

I read with the pure, exhilarating greed of readers sixteen, seventeen years old;