Zeal Quotes



Nothing can be fairer or more noble that the holy fervor of true zeal.
Moliere.

Zeal is the fire of love, active for duty burning as it files.
Williams.

Zeal and duty are not slow; but on occasion’s firelock watchful wait.
Milton.

If our zeal were true and genuine, we should be more angry with a sinner than with a heretic.
Addison.

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.

People give the name of zeal to their propensity to mischief and violence, though it is not the cause, but their interest that inflames them.
Montaigne.

The frenzy of nations is the states manship of fate.
Bulwer.

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 difficulty how I should call it.
Montaigne.

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

All true zeal for God is a zeal also for love, mercy, and goodness.
R.E. Thompson.

A zealous soul without meekness, is like a ship in storm, in danger of wrecks. A meek soul without zeal, is like a ship in a calm, that moves not so fast as it ought.
J.M. Mason.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
John Newton.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take place of pleasures, profits, and all other private gratifications. Whoever wants this motive, is an open enemy, or an inglorious neuter to mankind, in proportion to the misapplied advantages with which nature and fortune have blessed him.
Steele.

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.
Bafe.


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