Zeal Quotes

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

“Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“A zealous man in religion is pre-eminently a man of one thing. It is not enough to say that he is earnest, hearty, uncompromising, thorough-going, whole-hearted, fervent in spirit. He sees one thing, he cares for one thing, he lives for one thing, he is swallowed-up in one thing — and that one thing is to please God. Whether he lives — or whether he dies; whether he has health — or whether he has sickness; whether he is rich — or whether he is poor; whether he pleases man — or whether he gives offence; whether he is thought wise — or whether he is thought foolish; whether he gets blame — or whether he gets praise; whether he gets honor, or whether he gets shame — for all this the zealous man cares nothing at all. He burns for one thing — and that one thing is to please God, and to advance God's glory. If he is consumed in the very burning — he is content. He feels that, like a lamp, he is made to burn, and if consumed in burning — he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach, and work, and give money — he will cry, and sigh, and pray. Yes, if he is only a pauper, on a perpetual bed of sickness — he will make the wheels of sin around him drive heavily, by continually interceding against it. If he cannot fight in the valley with Joshua — then he will do the prayer-work of Moses, Aaron, and Hur, on the hill. (Exod. 17:9-13.) If he is cut off from working himself — he will give the Lord no rest until help is raised up from another quarter, and the work is done. This is what I mean when I speak of "zeal" in religion.”
― J.C. Ryle

“Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal.”
― Rebecca Ross, The Queen’s Rising

“As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Pursuit of Holiness

“You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

“When you are fired because of laziness, dare to fire back with the spirit of enthusiasm. Rise up at the same time and at the same place that you have fallen. You can’t give up!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks – open, willing to take risks, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, eager to see what the new day brings. Time and lost steal the zest from the unlucky, and leave them looking longingly at the past. Neoteny is a metaphor for the quality – and the gift – that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all marvelous undiscovered things to come.”
― Warren G. Bennis, Geeks and Geezers

“The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they should be attacked. They have never defended anything. Fourteen hundred persons are said to have died while building them. Of these fourteen hundred, about half are said to have been executed in public for substandard zeal.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Passion isn't cool, it's hot.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Truly, it is easy to sing that we would follow Jesus regardless, but all that zeal is lost at the slightest sign of inconvenience for some.”
― Temi O’Sola

“The first inclination of this generation is to talk, talk, talk-about anything and everything, at anytime and in any way. But the problem is, talk is a sham when it is from a person who knows not much and to whom talk is a pass-time. Know, stay silent, dream big, dare, take risks, talk, think, love...that's the definition of my zeal. And that's the definition of greatness”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“When we get a new idea — or remember an old one – and we cling to it and try to spread it with evangelical zeal, then we no longer have control over it. In fact, it's the idea itself that possesses us and becomes our new master. And we end up blindly serving the idea and forgetting the cause that brought it to us in the first place.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“Pangea split so now we're filled in a fit of pique.
We brim with lust, spirit willing, but the flesh is weak.
Consumed by greed, shoving everything down our throat.
Sloth a cottonseed, weaving us, we are a coat.
Zeal reveals our hearts conceal a deep and endless pit.
Grudge we hold against the world, she owes us every bit.
Iblis sees humanity's impending aftermath.
So now my friend, a gift he gives, its ink is wrath.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Where zeal abounds, maturity should abound much more.”
― Ayoola Ekunboyejo

“Faith is the zeal to hold on to God, even when the enemy is all out to destroy you.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“Above all, gentlemen, not too much zeal”
― Talleyrand

“Above all, gentlemen, not too much zeal”
― Talleyrand-Perigord-C-M

“Just like a new paragraph, one's zeal and enthusiasm could always be reworked to adapt to the new circumstances. New dreams often make one forget the past tears and advance in the life in a direction where they bloomed.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Skylines

“Zeal without knowledge is very fatal.
Knowledge without zeal is fatal.
But knowledge with zeal is a force of being.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Develop a lifestyle that makes you love your life and inculcates a zeal to go after your goals.”
― Avijeet Das

“Underachievement A term that simply means doing poorly on purpose - consciously or unconsciously. Many parents want to know how to get a child who is repeating a class to "ACCEPT" defeat. Well, those kids are already DEFEATED. ...consciously or unconsciously. And they have accepted the defeat consciously or unconsciously. So, next session when they begin to fail again and claim it's because they repeated that they lost their zeal, Be sure the zeal wasn't there BEFORE. So parents, stop majoring in the MINOR. AND start WORKING on "getting" them ZEAL.”
― Asuni LadyZeal

“Each man has his own struggle. He struggles to achieve his purpose, passion, and zeal towards life. And each man has to struggle to exist and in the process find his happiness.”
― Avijeet Das

“In your zeal to plant a seed that yields the fruits of the Spirit, prayer becomes the cultivator. If you pray for every fruit of the Spirit, your harvest will be great.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man

“Champions are men and women who refuses to fall back even in the midst of setbacks.”
― Anufa Freeborn

“Your destiny is not set in stone but if you don't have the zeal to strive, you will fail.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“If the gospel is merely assumed, while relatively peripheral issues ignite our passion, we will train a new generation to downplay the gospel and focus zeal on the periphery.”
― D.A. Carson

“The Nepal Cricket Team is going to rise higher and higher in World Cricket.”
― Avijeet Das

“Compelling zeal to win! Keeps you winning at all times!”
― Chidiebere Orji Agbugba

“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party--for what do they battle except their own prestige?”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando