Good morning and Happy Wednesday! Welcome to another edition of Wisdom/Virtue Wednesday. This week’s virtue is zeal.
Often used in a spiritual sense, zeal normally signifies a devotion to God or other religious justifications. But, zeal does not have to be religious or spiritual in nature. Zeal is a strong eager devotion to any cause, principle, or objective and a determined attentiveness in its advancement. You can have zeal for causes, sports teams, bands, and if you are lucky your jobs. If you have passion for anything, you have zeal. What do you have zeal for?
10 Wisdom Wednesday/Virtue Quotes: Zeal
“Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.”— Kahlil Gibran
“When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself”.–Confucius
“It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity”— Blaise Pascal
“Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.”— Buddha
“A zealous soul without meekness, is like a ship in a 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.”—John M. Mason
“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”—William Hazlitt
“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 fire without light.”—Thomas Henry Huxley
“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment”—Owen Felltham
“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
Cultivating the Virtue of Zeal.
