Quotes About Zeal

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

Savoir qu'il existe des passions et ne pas les ressentir, c'est affreux.

I feel myself quite wild with excitement.

He had a very young man's belief in the absolute rightness of his own cause and the absolute wrongness of everyone else's.

Come on, Stork Boy, aren't you excited?

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

Whatever I can do to assist in your – or any other firm's – hiring of Mr. Napp I will accomplish with resolution and zeal.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

You gotta follow your passion in life

A man needed fire in his veins to burn through the world, not ice to freeze everything in place.

When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.

I'm a very passionate person. I'm Italian, it's in my blood so when I care about something, I get emotional.

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.

Passion makes one persuasive.

It is wise to avoid militants of all plumage, to trust only the fanatically unfanatic

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

People with passion are people who will destroy—for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it. Will he kill? Will he go to war? Will he break and discard that which he has, all in the name of what he needs ?

Enthusiasm! this is the sign that the creative fountain is in you. "Enthusiasm is the All in All," said Blake. I must tell you this often.]

You're still trapped in that blind worship of the intellect. . . . . . Something about her zeal repels me, even though I do respect her. There's a germ of fanaticism in that fierce enthusiasm to save the world and redeem mankind—a touch of coercion and relentlessness that's frightening to me. She wants to fight evil or what she sees as evil—but couldn't that combativeness degenerate into an evil itself? My intellect asks that question and I can't silence it.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.