Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature. — Laura Gilpin Copy Share Image
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest. — Emilio Estevez 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
Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest. Scoff at none though they give occasion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid… — John Donne Copy Share Image
It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best,… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed… — Ludwig Binswanger Copy Share Image
No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that… — Griffith John 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
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
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
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
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
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused… We discover it by… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
