Zeal Quotes - Page 7

• Our children must never lose their zeal for
  building a better world.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Children, World, Building

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.61, Indiana University Press

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• If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Good Life, Men, Fearless

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• A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.

  Abigail Adams

  Country, People, Liberty

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• The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

  Adam Savage

  Cutting, Museums, Feet

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• The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

  John Stuart Mill

  Successful, Two, Fidelity

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.184

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• The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now.

  Ted Gup

  Real, People, Secret

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Intelligent, Doe

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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• The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Heart, Illumination

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.738, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Thinking, Humanity, Trying

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• [T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice.

  Alan Keyes

  Country, People, Justice

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• I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.

  Louise Erdrich

  Mass Destruction, Bullshit, People

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

  Alan Price

  Artist, Missionary Zeal, Attempting

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• If there existed only one man or woman who did not love the Saviour, and if that person lived among the wilds of Siberia, and if it were necessary that all the millions of believers on the face of the earth should journey there, and every one of them plead with him to come to Jesus before he could be converted, it would be well worth all the zeal, labour, and expense. If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Journey, Men

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• I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.

  Dana Goldstein

  School, Thinking, Missionary Zeal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, People, Trustworthiness

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.26, Criss Jami

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• The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

  Tom Peters

  Average, Differences, Imagination

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.14, Vintage

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• The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate.

  Bill Hamon

  Missing, Immature, Ignorant

  Bill Hamon, Oral Roberts (2011). “Prophets and Personal Prophecy: God's Prophetic Voice Today”, p.108, Destiny Image Publishers

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• In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

  Marquis de Custine

  Taken, Believe, Administration

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• Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

  Randall Robinson

  Religious, Conservative, Management

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

  Salvador Dali

  Teaching, Average, Giving

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, pp. 5-6, 1964.

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• Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

  Virginia Postrel

  Coffee, Mean, Cutting

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• If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

  Samuel Adams

  Perseverance, Men, Voting

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• Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Giving, Inspire, Soul

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• [I] was always my dream to attend the Art Institute. I have always had this zeal to become the best that I can be and I saw that this institution will act as an avenue to me achieving that goal. I applied to the institution and got accepted based on my impressive portfolio.

  St. Lucia

  Dream, Art, Goal

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

  John Calvin

  Song, Moving, Heart

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