Zeal Quotes
45 quotes
"Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it."
"Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness."
"Most of our problems today are not that we don’t know, but that we don’t know how to put things together with the right zeal and grit to get something noble and leave noble footprints!"
"We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel that we already know something in its totality, then we fail to keep our ears and eyes open to that which may expand or even changes that which we so zealously think we know."
Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
"Be enthusiastic for what you want. Work hard for it."
"Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions"
"I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency."
"The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians."
"A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned."
"Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one."
"Dream big, Dream to fly.. Let your zeal speak for you! Work passionately,And smile to each blissful morning.Make your life a reason.. To reach for the sky!"
"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
"…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thousand warriors. He rushes into the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. There is more than mere strength—there seems as if the whole soul and spirit of the champion were given to every blow which he deals upon his enemies. God assoilzie him of the sin of bloodshed! It is fearful, yet magnificent, to behold how the arm and heart of one man can triumph over hundreds."
"Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel."
"The beauty of your mind depends on the "make-ups" you use to feed it. A "can-do-spirit" is the best cosmetic. It never fades your mental beauty!"
"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!"
"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
"Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous"
Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
"Life is easy for some, hard for others. Some succeed with minimal effort, others have to put in a lot of efforts and some have it served in a dish. Whichever your case is, make the best of it. Enjoy the journey.You can't control the side of life you fall into but you can rise beyond any limitation it places on you. Those who have it easy are made of plastic, you are made of steel. Do what you must today."
"Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about."
"The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money."
"Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth."
"Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them!"
Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
"I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this time; the thoughts of everybody; how do I deal with that obstacle? how do I get there? ; troubling questions for everybody! Releasing ourselves, plugging into the purpose, challenging the challenges, questioning the unquestionable, taking the chances; the asset and audacity of somebody. Everybody has a dream but, it is somebody who gets to the dream."
"Sometimes in life, we may have to experience solitude, the baseless accusations of people, the betrayal and misunderstanding of trusted and loyal ones, the great judgments and suggestions of ‘they that know better’, and a moment of a state of double mindedness. But those are also for good, for they are the very things that shape and prepare our mind, body and spirit to face the world and to accomplish our mission with great zeal, tenacity and distinctiveness."
"Pesticide is meant to deal with pests as passion is to deal with unnecessary loss of interest! Passion kills the ghosts of "I can't"."
"One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest."
Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
"The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence!"
"Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you can't do it. You might have been the only one sent to do it."
"I believe that we are just carriers of God's wisdom that he uses to refurnish the earth He created. You are carrying part of that wisdom in you. When it's time to offload it, do so with all passion!"
"As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin."
"Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so."
"Everyone and everything needed to be raised to its highest level – the teacher must become a mage, the husband a knight errant, the labor a hero in a sacred drama – intensified, rarefied, baptized in the turbulent waters of restlessness, curiosity, and ardor."
"Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal."
"I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject."
"You know your Bible too well and life too little."
"Don’t be a shallow person. Do everything with zealous devotion, as you would do it for Christ"
"the progress of real purpose is crippled where lack of money is equated to lack of zeal"
"The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness."
"If there are difficulties on your way, be thankful for them because they will test and refine you as fire does to gold and if you will overcome, you will come out a winner, wizard and overcomer."
"We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation."
Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
"Zeal is very blind or badly regulated when it encroaches upon the rights of others."
"Blind zeal can only do harm."
"My zeal hath consumed me."
"To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious."