Zeal Quotations

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.

I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

three years as a guest of the American taxpayer ... I imagine he's come out with all the zeal he had before, and committed to the cause.

When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

She just embodied the generation of civic duty. Her zeal and passion never stopped. This isn't like a phase she grew out of.

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

I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.

I don't think he's lost any of his zeal for Social Security reform, ... The action has sort of shifted to the Hill now and the Ways and Means Committee so we'll have to kind of see what they can come up with.

He is in the best of health and is working to work wonderfully. His first day of shoot was done in my studio. He is wonderful. Hope he remains like this forever. He really had a lot of zeal when he resumed working.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

We made some mistakes in our zeal to really make a difference for our community. We need to be more cautious about the kind of activities we pursue.

He was such a gentle, fine person. One thing about Zeal ? he didn't want to make people mad.

He comes across not as a kind of demented Christian but somebody where religious zeal is clearly there to see, ... Almost like he's using his religion as an excuse for what he is doing.

Just his energy, it's certainly something you don't forget, that type of energy, the zeal for life that he had.

was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.

To Zeal, an honest handshake was worth everything. If Zeal told you something and he shook on it with you, it was a deal.

The democratic process allows any politician with an agenda, any organization with a big enough showing, even any bureaucrat with enough zeal to initiate legislation that impacts others more than themselves.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

While others may cloud their judgment by emotional zeal to cut taxes, it is my hope that we focus on our primary and most important responsibility and do the right thing ? to provide the very best education for our students, and thus, ensure a prosperous future for our community.

Too much zeal is a bad soldier who fires before the word of command

Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can

Duane Miller has been the most prolific researcher and inventor I have ever met. He demonstrates great zeal for transferring discoveries from his laboratory to the public through health care professionals.

Soro thanked the president profusely for the commitment and zeal with which he did his job as the chairman of AU. He asked Obasanjo not to be tired as he continued to help them in Ivory Coast to get out of the woods.

Dedication to and his passionate zeal in managing his office and levels of responsibilities are, in my opinion, great strengths.

And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high

A player has to commit to it. A player has to want to do it. You can't just rely on your athletic ability. You have to grow, you have to learn. You have to have a zeal to succeed.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Zeal for the greatness of England was the passion of his life.

It's a strong group of athletes. You really have some unique personalities. At the heart of it, we are proud of our Olympic team, how they represent our country, what's best about our country, our competitive zeal and our individualism.

I travel every summer for a month-and-a-half to reach out to the Indian American community. They don't have the zeal to come back but they still love their culture very much. Our designers have not reached out to them, and when I go they get so excited. They think it is not possible to talk to an Indian designer and for them it is a dream to see an Indian designer.

For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: / For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays

The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies

In its zeal to prop up its allegations against the president, the Office of the Independent Counsel ... intentionally omitted direct, exculpatory testimony, paraphrased unambiguous statements to obscure their plain meaning, and systematically resolved conflicting testimony in its favor,

I'm concerned that in the zeal to reform, we're overreaching.

I remember Hallie became the second town in Wisconsin to become a five-person board, and that's something Zeal fought real hard for.

INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne. The experiment of letting the spot grow cold has commonly been attended by most unhappy results from the zeal of many worthy persons to make it warm again.

If you work with zeal and ardor till the night,You can only make the wasted moments right.

I don't really have anything against the French except that, as an American, I've been bred to despise them with the same zeal as soccer and Renny Harlin films.

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can't fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

I have more zeal than wit.

Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

All zeal for a reform, that gives offenceTo peace and charity, is mere pretence.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

My hat is in the ring.

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.