I'll take an earnest person over a hip person any time…

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

— Randy Pausch

“I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.”

— Randy Pausch

“I’LL TAKE an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes…

— Randy Pausch

If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he…

— Max Muller

Personally, if I like someone I'm pretty earnest with that one person. So I've dated only a few over the years.

— Taeyang

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

— Herman Melville

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

— America Ferrera

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to…

— Randy Pausch

As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds…

— Walter Keane

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now…

— Marshall McLuhan

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles…

— Noah Webster

Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their…

— Charles Spurgeon

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be…

— Katherine Paterson