Eager Quotes

455 quotes by 403 authors

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again. — Chris Evert
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,… — Robert Collier
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. — Michel de Montaigne
But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam — Drake
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a… — Felix Frankfurter
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to… — Edward Abbey
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt… — Peter Straub
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no… — Erich Fromm
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it. — Mencius
The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a "hard" job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what… — Russell Simmons
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the… — John Templeton
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize… — John Templeton
No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits… — Tom Chappell
Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service… — Roger Babson
Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than… — Mick Delaney
As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager… — Catherine Helen Spence
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to… — Tertullian

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