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Zeal will do more than knowledge. -- William Hazlitt
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. -- John Tillotson
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. -- Khalil Gibran
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. -- Pasquier Quesnel
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment -- Owen Feltham
My hat is in the ring. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I have more zeal than wit. -- Alexander Pope
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. -- Frederick William Faber
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost. -- Gautama Buddha
We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer. -- Walter Scott
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal. -- Joseph Addison
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. -- Hosea Ballou
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. -- Alexander Pope
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. -- Isaac Barrow
When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. -- Confucius
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. -- Philip Doddridge
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies. -- William Shakespeare
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
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. -- Samuel Johnson
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. -- Daniel Boone
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
The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneself or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated. -- Robert Aumann
Zeal should not outrun discretion. -- Aesop
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. -- John Dryden
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. -- Sir John Davies
Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions -- John Piper
Achievement is not possible in the absence of Zeal. -- Kishore Bansal
Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier. -- George C. Wallace
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark. -- John Newton
Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. -- John Milton
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. -- Owen Feltham
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism. -- Herman Melville
Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness. -- Tami Hoag
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
Zeal' is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended. -- Reza Aslan
Zeal is the chief source, or one of the chief sources of spiritual power. God employs living souls to communicate life. In all ages, men of zeal have produced great results. This qualification, in the absence of others, can accomplish wonders. -- Charles Hodge
Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity flows from this virtue. Teachers who possess it fulfill the duties of their profession with enthusiasm, love, courage, and perseverance. -- Basil Moreau
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war. -- John Newton
the progress of real purpose is crippled where lack of money is equated to lack of zeal -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Passion makes most psychiatrists nervous -- Joseph Campbell
Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You know your Bible too well and life too little. -- Richard Llewellyn
Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about. -- Jeff Bezos
The only thing they had in common was the grandeur of their vision. -- Lawrence Wright
Our zeal and passion should be expressed before God rather than before people. -- Sunday Adelaja
Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so. -- Pravinee Hurbungs
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Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness. -- Criss Jami
You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work. -- Joseph Campbell
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin. -- Jerry Bridges
concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray; your purpose can put people in disarray. -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians. -- William MacDonald
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
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". -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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. -- Criss Jami
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! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- William Zinsser
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
One of the characters is admired by someone who admires no one else in life because he "gets this song in life, and has a habit of inviting people to the dance. -- Crazy Ones
Photo is confined to borders by all side, but memory zeal out to extend happiness even to the darkest corner of your life. a good snapshot bring out colour in your life. -- Manish Kathuria
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. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
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. -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- Jeff Bezos
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
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. -- William MacDonald
Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful. -- Richard Baxter
Too much zeal offends where indirection works. -- Euripides
The zeal of fools offends at any time. -- Alexander Pope
The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless. -- Samuel Johnson
False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute. -- Charles Tomlinson
Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. -- Charles Buxton
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined. -- Barbara Tuchman
We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal. -- Thomas a Kempis
The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them. -- Dale Ahlquist
Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak. -- John Piper
Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
We are often moved with passion and think it to be zeal. -- Thomas a Kempis
Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death. -- Ram Dass
Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you. -- Catherine Doherty
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. -- Michel de Montaigne
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel' -- Ronald A. Knox
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. -- Ronald Knox
Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders. -- Marquis de Sade
True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does. -- Hugh Nibley
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. -- Aaron Hill
Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness. -- Basil Moreau
Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal. -- Randall Robinson
Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent. -- Frank Murphy
Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits. -- Alan Cohen
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal. -- Moliere
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. -- Jeremy Bentham
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. -- Joseph Heller
The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies. -- Friedrich Schiller
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. -- John Stuart Mill
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor. -- Thomas a Kempis
If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal. -- R. A. Torrey
Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. -- Voltaire
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. -- William Cowper
There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows. -- David Sedaris
If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals. -- Carl Whitaker
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine -- Hosea Ballou
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. -- John Perry Barlow
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily. -- Tom Peters
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. -- John Stuart Mill
True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. -- Ralph Cudworth
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders. -- Henry Fielding
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. -- John William Fletcher
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. -- John Stott
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. -- Roland Allen
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. -- Junius
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. -- Edward G. Robinson

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