Earnest Quotes

332 quotes by 266 authors

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is… — Walter Bagehot
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry
It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. — Chuck Berry
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love. — Kim Cattrall
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat… — Charlie Chaplin
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. — Winston Churchill
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin,… — Jean Anouilh
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil… — W. E. B. Du Bois
If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in… — John Lancaster Spalding
Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses… — Charles Spurgeon
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get… — Edward McKendree Bounds
If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If,… — Richard Chenevix Trench
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered. — Oswald Chambers
True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free! — James Russell Lowell
What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition… — P.G. Wodehouse
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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