We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu 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
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
In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into. — Carl Jung 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
It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. — William James 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
“Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. The pain may be pain to other people or pain to… — William James 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
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization… — B. C. Forbes 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
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler 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
The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of… — Hermann Adler 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
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. — Oscar Wilde 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
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image