Zeal meaning

Noun: zeal

Pronunciation: (zeel)

Zeal meaning:

• Excitement, excessive fervor or passion to do something or accomplish some task.
• Prompt willingness
• Feeling of strong eagerness

Synonyms: passion, excitement, devotion

Quotations:

1. Aldous Huxley – 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.
2. Alexander Pope – Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, and if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
3. Mahatma Gandhi – A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
4. Paul J. Meyer – Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
5. Plato – Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Sample sentences:

1. Zeal will do more than knowledge.
2. Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
3. Too much zeal is a bad soldier who fires before the word of command.
4. Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
5. Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
6. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
7. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
8. He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
9. When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
10. Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.