Quotes About Zeal

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Nothing in the world has ever been accomplished without passion

Don't write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.

We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

God's love for Christ also implies His hatred for Christ's enemies and His zeal to vindicate Christ's honor.

The revolutionary is a dedicated man. He has no personal interests, no private affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property and no name. Everything in him is subordinated towards a single thought, a single passion: the Revolution.' Sergei Nechayev, The Revolutionary Catechism, 1869

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.

You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

If you are passionate about something, that will enable you to be the best you can be.

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

Profits don't always prove that you're doing it, passion does.

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

One day I'll wish I had a recording of Gretchen that I could play when I start feeling sorry for myself. I don't know that I've ever met a more enthusiastic person. Her key, I think, is that she's never stopped being interested in things. She's never decided that everything reminds her of something else, that everything worthwhile has been crossed off her list.

Douglass played the prophetic role of the "suffering servant" with zeal. His famous statement about agitation, delivered in a speech in 1857, has stood the test of time and numerous protest ideologies: "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to