Quotes About Zeal

For some, life is about "being Cool" while for others its about "being Hot". While there is room for both, we must avoid "being Lukewarm".

If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

In would rather die of passion than of boredom.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

La passione è uno strumento di difesa della ragione. Perché non basta avere ragione: bisogna anche, appassionatamente, difenderla.

To God, the right kind of human life looks well-meant but incompetent. Zeal is more important than technique.

You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.

Nothing is as good as coming into the new year with zeal, hope and positive mind.

It's easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.

Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Dear Crito, your zeal is invaluable, if a right one; but if wrong, the greater the zeal the greater the danger;

My whole life has been heat. I like heat, in a certain way.

Those who saw the famous film The Bridge on the River Kwai will remember the absurd zeal with which the English officer, prisoner of the Japanese, strives to build an audacious wooden bridge for them and is shocked when he realizes that the English sappers have mined it. So you see, love for a job well done is a deeply ambiguous virtue.

Zealous men often confuse purity with intolerance, particularly when they're young.

It's much better to be too easily interested.

Intensity. He believes in living with intensity.

It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted.

Don't you go up on the roof in that!" I exclaimed, sitting up abruptly. "That's your good woolen shirt!" He halted by the door, glared briefly at me, then, with the rebuking expression of an early Christian martyr, laid down his tools, stripped off the shirt, dropped it on the floor, picked up the tools, and strode majestically out to deal with the leak, buttocks clenched with determined zeal. I

I've always felt I should do things 100 percent or not do them. It's all or nothing. That's what makes me a good athlete - doing things with all the 'ganas' I can.