Quotes About Zeal

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.

whirlwind of somewhat belligerent delight.

Blaze yet and I hate waiting.

We need to hire people who are hungry. They go beyond what is required. Passionate about the work they're doing. Hungry.

Communists are also, curiously, utopians—secular utopians. They sought a heaven on earth—for them, an earth without religion. They did so without realizing that utopia is not only elusive but such a literal self-contradiction that it does not exist. The Greek roots of the word are ou topos, or "no place." In other words, there is no utopia, at least not in this world and realm. And yet, communists would pursue this no place with religious-like zeal.

Better to burn than to rot.

I am a book-collector, a proud avocationist in what Eric Quayle (wrongly) asserts to be the least vicious of hobbies (we are quite savage). We collectors are puzzled and often piqued unpleasantly by the common, absurd notion whereby we are only a pack of myopic, semi-crazed old pedants fretting over a book's colophon, dull dogs full of humorless zeal and no conversation, who suck our fingers free of pounce.

No life is complete without a touch of madness.

An intense life needs a touch of madness.

one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Do whatever you do intensely.

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

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

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

In Toronto, fans applaud; in Vancouver, they cheer; but in Calgary, they howl hair-raising, guttural paroxysms of zeal.

I had to admit, standing there, that sometimes you just gotta admire the passion of the truly insane -- a passion that bulls right past all sense or reason.

Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.

the reason why you see no real mortification or self-denial, no eminent charity, no profound humility, no heavenly affection, no true contempt of the world, no Christian meekness, no sincere zeal, no eminent piety in the common lives of Christians, is this, because they do not so much as intend to be exact and exemplary in these virtues.

Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-coloured flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. Yet even the military student, in his zeal to master the fascinating combinations of the actual conflict, often forgets the far more intricate complications of supply.