Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness," said old Roger Chillingworth, smiling at him.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it. — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I was a very earnest child. I was not funny. I would get laughed at for my earnestness, so I learned to… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on. — Miranda Raison 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
Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it,… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands… — Ben Hopkins Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart on it. Interest there must be and steady remembrance.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
![“Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.” quote by Richard Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bbf/richard-allen-41596_captivity_many-of-the-white-people-who-have-been-i_670051.jpg)
![“I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy or whatever, the writing would fall apart. This book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was going to have to have some earnestness in it.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/794/george-saunders-317_book_i-knew-if-i-evoked-that-stuff-too-easily_407342.jpg)
![“[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.” quote by Madame de Stael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/153/madame-de-stael-2069_believe_ridicule-laughs-at-all-those-who-see-the_131952.jpg)
![“[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b1/albert-einstein-33_cases_freud-s-sense-of-reality-is-less-clouded_437689.jpg)
