Eager Quotes

455 Eager quotes by 386 unique authors

Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not… — Leonardo da Vinci
There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens… — Edgar Degas
Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in… — Sathya Sai Baba
A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method. — Joshua Reynolds
Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to… — Joan D. Chittister
Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent… — Theodore Roosevelt
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal;… — Theodore Roosevelt
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information. — Walt Disney
The American child is a highly intelligent human being; characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy… — Walt Disney
For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze… — Matthew Arnold
I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those… — H P Lovecraft
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine… — Rosellen Brown
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he… — Gore Vidal
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent… — Lady Gregory
By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless -… — Claire Danes
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed,… — Richard Dawkins
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one… — James Fenton
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to… — Lee Iacocca

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