Eagerness Quotes
87 quotes by 81 authors
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Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
— Frank A. Clark
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That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
— William Hazlitt
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The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would…
— Alexander Hamilton
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To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a…
— Martin E. Marty
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As a leader, you must be filled with energy and eagerness, joy and love for what you do. If you lack enthusiasm for your job,…
— John Wooden
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It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to…
— Jules Renard
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Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe
— Lahiri Mahasaya
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It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it…
— Susan Patron
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Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for…
— Bennett Cerf
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The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of…
— Amit Ray
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to…
— Robert South
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The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from…
— Stephen Crane
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One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention,…
— Irving Babbitt
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Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is no such thing as a natural born pilot. Whatever my aptitudes or talents, becoming a proficient pilot was hard work, really a lifetime's…
— Chuck Yeager
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