Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will."… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit… — John Biddle Copy Share Image
With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose… — Andrew Bonar Copy Share Image
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my… — Charles W. Nibley Copy Share Image
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
