#zeal

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#grass #grow #peak #volcano #which

Zeal will do more than knowledge. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#more #than #will #zeal

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#american #been #bury #church #deadly

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#greatest #insidious #liberty #meaning #men

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme. ↗

— John Buford

#bravery #commendable #during #extreme #good

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through. ↗

— Helen Clark

#generally #i #i think #new #new zealand

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things. ↗

— Helen Clark

#being prepared #express #had #having #i

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you. ↗

— Brian Cox

#crocodiles #eat #especially #full #kinds

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. ↗

— Edwin W. Edwards

#had #i #law #overzealous #people