Quotes By Catogory
“Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark”.
―John Newton
“Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems”.
―Charles Colson
“Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits”.
―Alan Cohen
“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
“When you are labouring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself”.
―Confucius
“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine”.
―Hosea Ballou
“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
“My hat is in the ring”.
―Theodore Roosevelt
“Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools”.
―John Tillotson
“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
“Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honour and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications”.
―Richard Steele
“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
“I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle”.
―Arjun Rampal
“No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form”.
―William Godwin
“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others”.
―Pasquier Quesnel
“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
“Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow”.
―Khalil Gibran
“The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people”.
―Joseph Brant
“Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist”.
―Andrew O’Hagan
“I have come to the conclusion that it’s a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it’s good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation”.
―Henry Rollins
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal”.
―Charles Buxton
“I like men who are temperate and moderate in everything. An excessive zeal for that which is good, though it may not be offensive to me, at all events raises my wonder, and leaves me in a dilemma what I should call it”.
―Montaigne
“Zeal without knowledge is like fire without a grate to contain it; like a sword without a hilt to wield it by; like a high-bred horse without a bridle to guide him. It speaks without thinking, acts without planning, seeks to accomplish a good end without the adoption of becoming means”.
―Bate
“False zeal may rise as high as true, and indeed much higher; because it is extremely apt to estimate its object above its intrinsic and comparative importance. Besides, when a totally selfish heart is awakened into zeal, there is nothing in it to stem the tide of affections, which all unite and harmonize in the ardent pursuit of a selfish end. True zeal is a strong, steady, uniform, benevolent affection; but false zeal is a strong, desultory, boisterous, selfish passion”.
―Emmons
“Zealous men are always displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it”.
―W. Shenstone
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”.
―Voltaire
“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment”.
―Owen Feltham
“At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas”.
―Aldous Huxley
“Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian”.
―Benjamin Whichcote
“It is wonderful to have a high regard for the truth, but zeal for the truth must be balanced by a love for people, or it can give way to judgmentalism, harshness, and a lack of compassion”.
―John MacArthur
“Zeal is like fire; in the chimney it is one of the best servants; but out of the chimney it is one of the worst masters”.
―Thomas Brooks
“There is nothing that belongs to Christian experience more liable to a corrupt mixture than zeal”.
―Jonathan Edwards
“Zeal is a combination of two equally strong emotions: love and hate. It produces a strong love that hates anything that would harm its object. The Lord Jesus Christ expressed both aspects of zeal when He cleansed the temple; it was His passionate love for His Father’s house that caused Him to hate the terrible iniquity that desecrated it (Jn. 2:13-17; cf. Psm. 69:9)”.
―John MacArthur
“Zeal, the blind conductor of the will”.
―John Dryden
“Quote of the month”
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
BSO Kpechi
Inspirational Speaker
