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Quotes About Zeal

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
~ Eric Hoffer
Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.
~ Frances Hardinge
Whatever youre doing, give it all you got, share your passion, excitement and enthusiasm and let your vibe and energy become an inspiration to others.
~ Unknown
Be enthusiastic, be energetic, put your thoughts into action and enjoy a life full of success.
~ Anil Sinha
I feel like I could eat the world raw." -- Achilles
~ Madeline Miller
I'm a huge sports fan.
~ Marc Anthony
The humanists also lived double lives, in their own way: they had their officia, their negotia, and could only dedicate the best of their otium to solitary study and savant sociability. It was the model of the devout brotherhood, rather than the guild of artisans, that gave meetings between savants their regularity, festive rites, and a climate of literary zeal that warmed and familiarized those remnants of antiquity that seemed spectral or affected.
~ Unknown
ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKING BUT THE PRAISE OF MEN, HERE FIND FIT RETRIBUTION, EMPTY AS THEIR DEED
~ John Milton
for neither do the spirits damned Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth which glory excites, Or close ambition varnished o'er with zeal.
~ John Milton
It grieves me ofttimes to see poor souls, that have a zeal for God and a desire of eternal welfare, kept by such directors and directions under a hard, burdensome, outside worship and service of God, with many specious endeavours for mortification, in an utter ignorance of the righteousness of Christ, and unacquaintedness with his Spirit, all their days.
~ John Owen
Oh, bullshit," Jenkins said. "You do it because you like it, because you get that feeling in your balls like you're in a falling elevator, and you like it. We all like it. We get all grim and warriored-up about it, but the bottom line is, we like it." "That's somewhat true," Shrake admitted. "That's why Davenport does it: it's better than money," Jenkins said. "You guys bum me out sometimes," Virgil said.
~ John Sandford
Anything worth doing is worth doing at a fevered pitch.
~ John Scalzi
We all have passions.
~ John Seely Brown
And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.
~ John Steinbeck
And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.
~ John Steinbeck
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning.
~ John Steinbeck
Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Dribking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged diety. Not only would she not touch it herself, but she resisted its enjoyment by anyone else. The result naturally was that her husband Samuel and all her children had a good lusty love for a drink.
~ John Steinbeck
Liza hated alcoholic liquors with an iron zeal. Drinking alcohol in any form she regarded as a crime against a properly outraged deity. Not only would she not touch it herself, but she resisted its enjoyment by anyone else. The result naturally was that her husband Samuel and all her children had a good lusty love for a drink.
~ John Steinbeck
La vida no vale nada si no tienes una obsesión.
~ John Waters
SEEK THOSE WITH A FIRE-IN-THE-BELLY ENTHUSIASM FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
~ John Wooden
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
~ Gene Tierney
I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.
~ Clancy Brown
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
~ Francois Fenelon
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
~ John William Fletcher