Eagerness Quotes

87 Eagerness quotes by 81 unique authors

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. — Frank A. Clark
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt
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
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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
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
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
Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe — Lahiri Mahasaya
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
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
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
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
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
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
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
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
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
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new… — Samuel Johnson
The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that… — Dion Fortune
One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience… — Irving Howe
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not… — Elizabeth Kenny

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