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Quotes About Zeal

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, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 479 (1928)
~ Milton Friedman
The cure against Christian violence is not less of the Christian faith, but, in a carefully qualified sense, more of the Christian faith. I don't mean, of course, that the cure against violence lies in increased religious zeal; blind religious zeal is part of the problem. Instead, it lies in stronger and more intelligent commitment to the Christian faith as faith.
~ Miroslav Volf
It's dangerous talking for Jesus. You get carried away almost immediately.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine
~ Napolean Hill
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!
~ Napoleon Hill
state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE.
~ Napoleon Hill
You have more zeal than good taste, Martín. The disease afflicting you has a name, and that is Grand Guignol : it does to drama what syphilis does to your privates. Getting it might be pleasurable, but from then on it's all downhill.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I want to love what I'm doing. Love who I'm with. Have a passion for life, for breathing, for beauty, for everything. I don't want to die without that zeal, that fever, that excitement brewing inside me. I want to live, not merely exist.
~ Carolyn Brown
young and his
~ Carolyn Brown
Metal fans are the most hard-core, loyal fans.
~ Wayne Static
We can exist at the highest degree of intensity for as long as we live.
~ Thomas Bernhard
To the memory of Oskar Schindler, and to Leopold Pfefferberg who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written.
~ Thomas Keneally
And with love, ambitions!
~ Thomas Keneally
If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.
~ Kathy Acker
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night. - Terri Guillemets
~ Kathy Collins
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. —E. M. FORSTER
~ Katie Couric
The word amateur derives from the Latin word amator, which means lover, devoted friend, or someone who is in avid pursuit of an objective. In the original sense, an amateur is someone who does something for the love of it.
~ Ken Robinson
Las actividades que nos gustan nos llenan de energía incluso cuando estamos agotados físicamente.
~ Ken Robinson
The word amateur derives from the Latin word amator, which means lover, devoted friend, or someone who is in avid pursuit of an objective. In the original sense, an amateur is someone who does something for the love of
~ Ken Robinson
The words of an old hymn come to mind: But we make His love too narrow By false limits of our own; And we magnify His strictness With a zeal He will not own. For the love of God is broader Than the measure of the mind; And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. --—Frederick William Faber 1814-1863
~ Ken Wilson
Hypocrisy will serve as well To propagate a church as zeal; As persecution and promotion Do equally advance devotion: So round white stones will serve, they say, As well as eggs, to make hens lay.
~ Butler
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
~ buxton charles
poleaxed with exuberance. Keeping to dirt roads,
~ C.J. Box