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Quotes About Zeal

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.
~ Woody Allen
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar--the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.
~ Yann Martel
A fanatic redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.
~ Clive James
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
~ Clive Owen
Can one exist on lukewarmness?
~ Colette
When we do not trust him wholeheartedly, we defraud God of his honor.[107] While Luther sees self-righteousness as a cause of doubt, Calvin sees it as a defrauding of God. When men trust their own zeal, wisdom, and toil, they usurp God's exclusive right to glory for the well being of his people.
~ Unknown
The dead watch us, zealous in old causes.
~ Hilary Mantel
You're young, but you're ambitious in the way that perhaps only the young can be.
~ Holly Black
Not a heart of stone, but a heart of fire.
~ Holly Black
His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
~ Holly Black
Let's Go Cracker!
~ Unknown
I want too much. I always have.
~ Lily King
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
~ Lionel Shriver
The Seductor Imposter definitely has its superpowers, of course: charm, charisma, zeal, and spontaneity.
~ Unknown
You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill's.
~ Torrey DeVitto
There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
~ Maggie Rowe
Debs stood in the rain and watched him go, which I am sure she intended to make Wilkins nervous enough to leap from the car and confess, but considering the weather it struck me as excessive zeal. I got into the car and waited for her.
~ Jeff Lindsay
For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it's a religion.
~ Jeffrey Archer
All that the saints say is a prayer to God; their whole prayer and supplication a strong wrestling for the pity of God, so that we, who by our own strength and zeal cannot be saved, may be preserved by His mercy.
~ Jerome
Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.
~ Jess Walter
The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.
~ John Frankenheimer
I love to work. I absolutely love to work.
~ Johnny Galecki
I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.
~ Millard Drexler