Quotes about zeal

16 quotes in this topic

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

Buddha

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

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Sir John Davies

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

Owen Felltham

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Fuller

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

Oliver Goldsmith

Blind zeal can only do harm.

Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer

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

John Newton

Too much zeal spoils everything.

Proverb

Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching.

Proverb

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

Pasquier Quesnel

Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

Shalom Rokeach

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

John Tillotson

If we only say what we feel, then we merely dwell in that which keeps us zeal.

Anuj Somany