Zeal Quotes

• Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

  Alan Cohen

  World, Limits, Taught

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• Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

  Sholom Rokeach

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Evil

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• The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Men, Depth

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• Zeal will do more than knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Knowledge, Champion

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.178

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• Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Loss

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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

  Confucius

  Philosophical, Zealous, Ifs

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

  Charles Buxton

  Success, Positive Attitude, Enthusiasm

  "Notes of Thought". Book by Charles Buxton and John Llewelyn Davies, 1873.

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• Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Motivational, Determination, Singleness Of Purpose

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• Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

  Sir John Davies

  Folly

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• There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Deceiving

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

  John Tillotson

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

  John Dryden

  Blind, Conductor

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.479, Pearson Education

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• Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

  Frederick William Faber

  Forgiveness, Faith, Kindness

  "Spiritual conferences".

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• Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Excess, Exciting

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.315

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

  Owen Feltham

  Humanity, Sailing, Ships

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• True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Flames, Hands, Gentle

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• There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Want, Decay

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1866). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.410

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• It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Boat, Excellent

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.405, Wesleyan University Press

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• Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

  William Shenstone

  Men, Zealous, Belief

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.148

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• Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.

  Isaac Barrow

  Prejudice, Boisterous

  Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.237

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• Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Gentleman, Honor

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• The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Church, Doe

  1963 Strength to Love.

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• I have more zeal than wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Wit

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.443

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

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Rights, Blind

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• 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

  Mother, Religious, Technology

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