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A Quote by Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis on liberty, meaning, men,...

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Contributed by:  Zaady read more

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A Quote by Martin Farquhar Tupper on anger, failure, generosity, justice,...

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. Source:  Proverbial Philosophy Contributed by:  Zaady read more

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A Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda on good, habits, mind, and zeal

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it...

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A Quote by Philip Doddridge on immortality, soul, and zeal

Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. Source:  Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race. Contributed by:  Zaady read more

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A Quote by Sir Richard Steele on good, honor, privacy, and zeal

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications. Contributed by:  Zaady read more

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A Quote by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton on ability, body, experience, soul,...

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. Contributed by:  Zaady read more

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A Quote by St. François de Sales on arrogance, danger, desires, disobedience,...

While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and...

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A Quote by William G. Hoffman on ambition, animals, army, art, boasts,...

1. A big black bug bit a big brown bear. 2. Bring a bit of buttered brown bran bread. 3. Just which one he wants I don't know. 4. His daughter was going to New York to study law. 5. That's the question...

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A Quote by William Shakespeare on age, enemies, god, and zeal

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. Source:  King Henry VIII Contributed by:  Zaady read more

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A Quote by William Shakespeare on age, aim, ambition, angels, corruption,...

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;...

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