Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Charles Brenton Huggins
Charles Brenton Huggins

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.

Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette

I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.

Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.

Robert Zubrin
Robert Zubrin

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

Sextus Propertius
Sextus Propertius

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.