Quotes About Zeal

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

Blažene žene: one nikad ništa ne rade dopola. One uvijek u sve unose svu strast.

Mr. Pickwick was no sluggard, and he sprang like an ardent warrior from his tent-bedstead.

This one thing I say, if Alphenus was an influential man because of his party zeal, Naevius was most influential;

Passion is no ordinary word

C'était aussi un ambitieux, estima-t-elle, mais seulement à la façon des gens trop zélés qui craignent de voir dérangé l'ordre d'une vie bien établie. Aucun feu intérieur n'animait cet homme.

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

Don't waste your time with explanations: do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Follow your heart, "Do what you love,and with all your heart give yourself to it.

It's worth making time to find the things that really make you feel alive, and do it with all your heart.

If you're going to do foolish things, do them with enthusiasm.

Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

Women, in general, are very passionate fans, and that's what you love about them.

When you get involved in a startup, you have to be passionate.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Authentic Christianity and the world are by definition at odds. For most Americans, Christianity has been watered down and rendered innocuous, like so much fast food. It has become easy, upbeat, convenient, and compatible. It does not require self-sacrifice, discipline, humility, and otherworldly outlook, a zeal for souls, a fear as well as love of God. There is little guilt and no punishment, and the payoff in heaven is virtually certain.

Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a 'fiery chariot' of zeal and violence.

To seem to be zealous, if it be not according to the word, is not obedience, but will-worship.

A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in God's service.

an aggressively encouraged obsessive-compulsive

I love Joakim Noah. He's energetic.