Quotes About Zeal

Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

We're all Bloody inspired

Then let's quit yappin' and let's get slappin',

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

As writer Jack London put it: "You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club!

Never knew a man could be so…hungry for it.

They thought of themselves as pure and righteous. They had a kind of holy fervor about them, despite which—or perhaps because of which—they were capable of unholy atrocities.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

At the height of his effectiveness, John Wesley was asked the secret of his impact for Christ around the world and reportedly answered, "When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

If it's worth doing, I guess it's worth overdoing.

it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Don't you," I said wearily. "You're a young man. You're zealous in the cause of right. When you get to my age, you'll find that you like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains.

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

Mediocrity is but a by-product of the dispassionate

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

That's how it is with me. I keep burning. I am the burning man.

The humorist George Ade once said, 'Don't pity the martyrs, they love the work.

Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.