A Quote by Tacitus

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Tacitus

Quote Topics

Careless Commencement End In The End Zealous

Quote Author

Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

John Piper

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

J. C. Ryle

Commencement Day has a sobering finality in that it's the end of the prescribed path.

Steve Blank

It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Orrin Hatch

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

Tacitus

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Mario Puzo

En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

Philippa Gregory

Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible.

Eric Metaxas

Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

Lydia Sigourney

The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute you say someone is extremely careless you are saying they're grossly negligent.

Rudy Giuliani

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.

C. S. Lewis

It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

Sallust

A believing man will be a zealous man. Faith makes a man zealous. Faith shows itself by zeal. Not by zeal for a party or a system or an opinion; but by zeal for Christ - zeal for His church - zeal for the carrying on of His work on earth.