Best Earnest Sayings
332 Earnest quotes by 265 unique authors
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that…
— George Washington
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What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports…
— V.S. Naipaul
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the…
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy... parts of one organic whole.... (This is…
— Robinson Jeffers
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There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the…
— Robert E. Lee
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Some people are very earnest after the things of God, and he who seeks finds, and the more he seeks in the right direction the…
— Charles W. Penrose
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When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had…
— James Keller
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Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea,…
— Andrew Bonar
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Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Men point to the sad incidents of human life on earth, and they ask "Where is the love of God?" God points to that Cross…
— Robert Anderson
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The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor…
— Andrew Johnson
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True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe…
— John Donne
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Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream… Every human wish dream that is injected into…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more…
— William Lane Craig
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I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we…
— Heber J. Grant
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Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
— Van Wyck Brooks
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Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may…
— Rob Jackson
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Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the…
— G. Edward Griffin
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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the…
— Dogen
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