Zeal Quotes
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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— Hymn 70 : True and False Zeal
Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.
lydia sigourney— Know Thyself
No one deserves more than he the esteem which he enjoys here. He is a prodigy for his age, full of courage, spirit, judgment, good manners, feelings of generosity and of zeal for the cause of liberty on this continent.
lafayette, gilbert du motier, marquis de— Baron Johann de Kalb, writing to the French War Department, as quoted in George Washington's Generals and Opponents : Their Exploits and Leadership (1994) by George Athan Billias, p. 219
Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is... that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results. The zeal for "answers" is the explanation of the zeal for rigid and mechanical methods.
john dewey— Open-mindedness
How curious, after all, is the way in which we moderns think about our world! And it is all so novel, too. The cosmology underlying our mental processes is but three centuries old a mere infant in the history of thought and yet we cling to it with the same embarrassed zeal with which a young father fondles his new-born baby.
— Edwin Arthur Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science; a Historical and Critical Essay (1925)
zeal will do more than knowledge.
william hazlitt— "On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking"
zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.
— Meaning: "Uninformed enthusiasm will only lead to disaster."
— Source for meaning: Manser, Martin H. (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 319.
— Strauss, Emanuel (1994). "703". Dictionary of European Proverbs. II. Routledge. p. X.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
— 1769 Public Advertiser,19 Dec, Letter 35.
I shall be very careful to preserve and maintain the Act of Toleration, and to set the minds of all my people at quiet; my own principles must always keep me entirely firm to the interests and religion of the Church of England, and will incline me to countenance those who have the truest zeal to support it.
— Speech from the Throne (25 May 1702), from Cobbett's parliamentary history of England. Volume VI (London: R. Bagshaw, 1810), p. 1671.
For a number of years there has been a righteous discontent, a burning zeal to go forward in His name among the Baptist women of our churches and it will be the dynamic force in the religious campaign at the opening of the 20th century.
— How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping September 1900 National Baptist Convention.
— Speech given at 1900 National Baptist Convention, Richmond Virginia.
The good Socialist works with religious zeal for the redemption of mankind from the evils of poverty and ignorance. ... He is conscious of the beauty of the ideal ... he works on ... for the deliverance of the human spirit from the enslavement of material things.
herbert morrison— Manchester Guardian, 2 July 1934, quoted in Bernard Donoughue and George Jones, "Herbert Morrison: Portrait of a Politician" (Phoenix Press, 2001), p. 184.
Hasn’t there … been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer.
james richardson— #449 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?
stephen jay gould— "Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!", p. 246
Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.
john green— The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace Lancaster (2012, p. 33)
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 idols.
aldous huxley— Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1952)
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.
— Frederick William Faber, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 363
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act III, scene 2, line 455.
It is only through a burning zeal for the salvation of the lost a zeal glowing in the heart, and flashing out in the look and action and utterance that the confidence of unbelief can be overcome, and the heedless travelers of the broad way won to the path of life and happiness. Love is the most potent logic; interest and sympathy are the most subduing eloquence.
— The Christian at Work, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 625.
Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.
— Philip Doddridge, in the hymn "Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race".
We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
— Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock, heading of Chapter XVII.
Press bravely onward! not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, To the Reformers of England.
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 idols.
aldous huxley— Aldous Huxley, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1952).
Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. This is the damning hypocrisy of this age; that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it.
— Richard Fuller, p. 508. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.
— Sir Robert Hutchison, 20th century physician, British Medical Journal, 1953; 1: 671.
A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for, Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest. Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal, It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven! To effect this I shall work now and ever more.
— Vohu-Khshathra Gatha; Yasna 51, 1.
zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.
Herman Melville— Supplement (Battle Pieces: And Aspects of the War (1860))
zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epigram III, line 261.
