Quotes About Zeal

Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.

The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.

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Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self-conscious, so apparently moral…. I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous … more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. -Bruce Barton

I love what I do. I'm passionate about what I do. I live for what I do. And every morning, I can't wait to stop sleeping and to jump up and get out of bed and start doing what I do.

You've got to play with passion and spirit and I will always roll up my sleeves and give it a good go.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

But we must not (as we do every day) give the name of duty to an inward bitter harshness born of self-interested passion, nor that of courage to malicious and treacherous dealings. What they call zeal is their propensity to wickedness and violence: it is not the cause which sets them ablaze but self-interest: they stoke up war not because it is just but because it is war.

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She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." —Justice Louis Brandeis

I love to just be super nerdy.

I love to see when people are real passionate about what they feel and what they say.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?

You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.

You gotta love everything you do. You just gotta do it.

You've gotta love the game. To become really good, you need to live it and sleep it.