Zeal Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Zeal Quotes from famous authors such as Richard N. Haass, Junius, Confucius, Ray Comfort, Simon Sebag Montefiore. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.
Richard N. Haass
2
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
Junius
3
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Confucius
4
I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you’ve sinned against God.
Ray Comfort
5
The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the three Abrahamic religions, the greatest millenarian rapture of human history.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
6
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ‘I believe’ to ‘one does feel’.
Ronald Knox
7
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century – it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
Adam Savage
8
In their ideological zeal, the feminists of the illiberal left don’t seem to realize how they’ve given feminism a bad name.
Kirsten Powers
9
I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle.
Arjun Rampal
10
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
Andrew O’Hagan
11
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Jeremy Taylor
12
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
Andrew O’Hagan
13
The resilience, tenacity and zeal of our valiant air warriors is a source of pride for every Indian.
Ram Nath Kovind
14
All Party members, service personnel, and other people should turn out as one with ardent loyalty to the Party and extraordinary patriotic zeal, and demonstrate the spirit and mettle of Korea that is rushing forward towards final victory racing against time.
Kim Jong-un
15
The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
Saul David
16
Frank Capra, Hollywood’s Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ covers of Norman Rockwell. ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
Manny Farber
17
Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
Bernice King
18
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt
19
‘Zeal’ is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended.
Reza Aslan
20
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.
John C. Calhoun
21
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Jeremy Taylor
22
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
23
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Leonardo da Vinci
24
The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the three Abrahamic religions, the greatest millenarian rapture of human history.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
25
The Obama administration’s zeal to not ‘waste a good crisis,’ as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, has been stunning even for Washington insiders to behold.
Elaine Chao
26
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt
27
I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you’ve sinned against God.
Ray Comfort
28
I work with the same dedication and zeal in all my projects, but ‘Raees’ is very special.
Mahira Khan
29
There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.
Yami Gautam
30
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
31
Abundant choice doesn’t force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.
Virginia Postrel
32
Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
Saint Ignatius
33
As a film enthusiast and a lover of stories, I have read biblical stories and I’ve seen biblical films with the same zeal as I have read and seen my own country’s stories. Most of the time, the creator doesn’t know where he gets his inspiration from.
S. S. Rajamouli
34
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
Joseph Brant
35
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.
Vince Lombardi
36
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Tacitus
37
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Khalil Gibran
38
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
James Wolcott
39
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Pasquier Quesnel
40
There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.
Yami Gautam
41
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Pasquier Quesnel
42
Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.
Richard N. Haass
43
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector’s zeal.
Edward G. Robinson
44
We’ve conflated football games with patriotic zeal. I don’t think attending a football game is any more patriotic than walking down the street to my local library. It’s just another activity we all enjoy.
Oliver Luck
45
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller
46
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.
Marquis de Lafayette
47
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
Joseph Heller
48
All Party members, service personnel, and other people should turn out as one with ardent loyalty to the Party and extraordinary patriotic zeal, and demonstrate the spirit and mettle of Korea that is rushing forward towards final victory racing against time.
Kim Jong-un
49
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
James Wolcott
50
I have an almost religious zeal… not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
Dan Millman
51
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Frederick William Faber
52
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.
Roxane Gay
53
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton
54
Frank Capra, Hollywood’s Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ covers of Norman Rockwell. ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
Manny Farber
55
No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.
William Godwin