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Quotes About Zeal

I'm naturally fired up. I'm naturally excited to play each and every time I lace the shoes up.
~ Jae Crowder
he was trying to pave his way to heaven by plastering over his sins with the putty of religious zeal.
~ Karen Marie Moning
If you don't do things with all your might, you may end up being harmed by those things you try halfway.
~ Karen Marie Moning
he fucks with the single-minded devotion of a dying man hunting God.
~ Karen Marie Moning
That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.
~ Karl Barth
Zealously she paid her debt to virtue and morality—all the more so because she had set about this a little late without ever thinking for the better half of her life that there would be such a price, but then, becoming convinced that it was unavoidable, she—one must do her justice—endeavored with an improbable commitment to pay the aforementioned debt and all interest that had accrued.
~ Karolina Pavlova
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Strike lustily for life, and hurry not your blows, but let each toll.
~ G.A. Henty
Vivere ardendo e non bruciarsi mai
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
She was intelligent, but her intelligence didn't get in her way of her enthusiasm
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Fun was far more difficult to get a handle on than zeal.
~ Gail Caldwell
Historical tempers have cooled only slightly after the impeachment of Bill Clinton for lying under oath about a sexual relationship. Many Americans still believe his actions were a threat to the very rule of law; others insist that the "offense" was more low farce than high crime, and that the zeal of Clinton's foes was partisan hypocrisy rather than constitutional passion.
~ Garrett Epps
He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.
~ Gary McCord
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
~ Gates McFadden
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.
~ Gautama Buddha
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
~ Bruce Barton
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
~ Bruce Barton
If you can give your son or daughet only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
~ Bruce Barton
They say "ya gotta stay hungry"... Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!
~ Bruce Springsteen
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
~ Bryant McGill
If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively. And this, without prejudice to his greatly improved understanding; for, if his elation was the height of his madness, his despondency is but the extreme of his sanity.
~ Herman Melville
On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Vesper smiled at him. 'I like it,' she said. 'I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live. But it sounds rather schoolgirlish when one says it,' she added apologetically.
~ Ian Fleming