I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value.… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
“I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul.… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation just because you've never been denied. You try to say you've done it all… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
You're constantly, in human culture, trying to balance between uplifting, heartfelt, sincere, earnestness that empowers and enlightens people, and the sarcastic cynicism… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
