Earnest Quotes
332 quotes by 266 authors
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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
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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
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It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
— Chuck Berry
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The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
— Kim Cattrall
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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
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
— Winston Churchill
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
— Oswald Chambers
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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
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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
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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