Zeal Quotes

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, While, Changed

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Khalil Gibran

Grow, Grass, Volcano

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

Yourself, Same, Others

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller

Knowledge, Fire, Light

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis

Men, Greatest, Liberty

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Frederick William Faber

Learning, Kindness, Sinners

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

Music, Lost, Rather

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Hosea Ballou

Human, Charity, Divine

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

Great, End, May

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
Joseph Heller

Laughter, Give, Dentist

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
Daniel Boone

Men, Powerful, Country

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Jeremy Taylor

Friend, Together, Hearts

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

Technology, Mother, Living

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

God, Gratitude, Passion

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

Religion, Politics, Others

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson

Men, Wise, Fools

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.
Roland Allen

Love, Help, Person

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

Others, Rights, Blind

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
John Buford

Good, Men, Night

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Charles Buxton

Success, Experience, Less

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Edward G. Robinson

Father, Black, Trying

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
Peter Akinola

Age, American, Once

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
Owen Feltham

Humanity, Moment, Ship

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
Ronald Knox

Politeness, Bigot, Corrected

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

Great, Loyalty, King

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