Definition of Zeal

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Definition of Zeal
	Zeal Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor. A zealot. To be zealous. Related Definitions: Active, And, Anything, Ardent, Ardor, Be, Cause, Eagerness, Engagedness, Enthusiasm, Favor, Fervor, In, Interest, Zealot, Zealous, Of, Or, Passionate, Person, Pursuit, The, To

Zeal Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller

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

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

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt

Zeal Translations

zeal in Danish is iver
zeal in Dutch is ambitie, vuur, ijver
zeal in Finnish is into
zeal in German is Eifer
zeal in Italian is voga
zeal in Latin is studium, devotio
zeal in Norwegian is iver
zeal in Portuguese is zelo
zeal in Spanish is ahinco, celo
zeal in Swedish is arbetslust, iver, nit

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