Quotes About Zeal

He was burdened, poor Strether—it had better be confessed at the outset—with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in his zeal and curiosity in his indifference.

The great thing is to love something.

what we have brought to perfection, in our zeal to escape the true reality, is a complete arsenal of destruction; when we have rid ourselves of the suicidal mania for a beyond we shall begin the life of here and now which is reality and which is sufficient unto itself. We shall have no need for art or religion because we shall be in ourselves a work of art...this is the way in which man will overcome his broken state.

If loving your job qualifies you as a workaholic, then yes, I am one for sure!

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

I want to do as much as I can do while I'm young.

When you are young, you are fervent about the things you believe in.

I have this tremendous energy. I just loved and love life. I love it today. I never want to die.

Young people have such tremendous energy.

I wake up every day with tremendous enthusiasm.

To be a success, find what you love and do it with all your heart.

There is only one way to success and that is love. Love what you want to do, it will be done.

As is our enthusiasm, so is our ability.

Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing.

Anything you do, do with love and enthusiasm.

Whatever you do, foolish or wise, important or unimportant, do with love and enthusiasm.

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

It's not who jumps the highest - it's who wants it the most

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

I'm sick and tired of life with no desire. I don't want a flame, I want a fire.

This argument—"We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from our hands,"97—was a politico-military ideal but an inaccurate prediction, for both Cicero and the Roman republic, in part due to the inferiority of their arms, were killed within the year by Caesar's standing army.