Time and pains will do anything.

“You know what?” he said with great earnestness. “I think we’re both afraid of the same thing. And for the same reason. We’ve never…

— Paul Bowles

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ...…

— C. S. Lewis

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

— Corita Kent

“It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for…

— C.S. Lewis

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of…

— B. C. Forbes

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

— Thomas Carlyle

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of…

— Frederick William Robertson

The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . .…

— George Edgar Vincent

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It…

— Madame de Stael

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.

— Grayson Perry

The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a…

— Philip Neri

... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

— Mindy Kaling

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

— Soren Kierkegaard