Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown, Have stirred up many zealous souls To fight against imaginary giants.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

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

Zealous, not modest.
James Beattie

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
Bible

For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Bible

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.
Bible

For zeal’s a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.
Samuel Butler (1)

Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.
Philip Doddridge

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

Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer

A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty’s works, and chiefly Man, God’s latest image.
John Milton

But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash.
John Milton

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

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

ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
Ambrose Bierce

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
Sir John Davies

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

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

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

Blind zeal can only do harm.
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer

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

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

But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!
John Milton

Zeal then, not charity, became the guide.
Alexander Pope

I have more zeal than wit.
Alexander Pope

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
Alexander Pope

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

My hat is in the ring.
Theodore Roosevelt

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies. [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.]
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
Sir Walter Scott

If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.
Swamwra of Basra