Fervor Quotes

• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Courage, Travel, Adventure

  "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" by Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price, Ch. 12, (p. 100), 1954.

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• Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Bridges, Pillars, Longing

  "'Michael: ein Deutsches Schicksal in Tagebuchblättern' ('Michael: a German fate in diary notes')". Book by Joseph Goebbels, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., Munich, 7th edition, 1935.

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• There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

  Drew Barrymore

  Want, Sides, Hunger

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• Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Life And Love, Creativity

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  "Coningsby, or The New Generation". Book by Benjamin Disraeli (Book VII, Chapter 2), 1844.

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• I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Lips, Reason, Courtship

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.48

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• I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold - and praying with fervor for the Communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Heart, Iron

  "Tortured For Christ". Book by Richard Wurmbrand, June 1940.

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• Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

  David O. McKay

  Patriotic, Soul, Students

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• To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

  Christopher Hampton

  Happiness, Religious, Seduction

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• Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Song, Religious, Heart

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.349, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Douglas MacArthur's address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation in New York (July 30, 1957) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

  William James

  Passion, Math, Unions

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.356, Harvard University Press

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• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  Dan Glickman

  Independent, Intellectual, Filmmaker

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• The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

  Huey Newton

  Stars, Hero, People

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin

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• The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

  Duane Michals

  Art, Air, People

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• And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

  Julius Caesar

  Hate, War, Blood

  "We're not all citizens of the US yet". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2002.

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• Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

  Italo Svevo

  Past, Gains, Remember

  Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.83, Vintage

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• If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Patriotic, Names, Evil

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

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• The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love is cold compared with what Jesus deserves, and our intensest zeal still lacks the full fervor which the bleeding wounds and pierced heart of the crucified might claim at our hands. Our best things need a sin offering, or they would condemn us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fighting, Decision, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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

  Moliere

  Noble, Holy, Zeal

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• I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, Two Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul.

  St. Vincent

  Daughter, Fire, Should Have

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• In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Passion, Men, Battle

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• There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Art, Philosophy, Band

  Alan Dean Foster (2002). “Diuturnity's Dawn: Book Three of the Founding of the Commonwealth”, p.85, Del Rey

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