Best Earnestness Sayings
71 Earnestness quotes by 64 unique authors
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Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a…
— Haruki Murakami
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I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness,…
— Louisa May Alcott
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You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is…
— Marie Lu
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It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which…
— Frederick William Robertson
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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever…
— Vidya Balan
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I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
— Matt Lauria
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That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
— Thomas Howard
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
— Abu Bakr
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In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully…
— John Strachan
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Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true…
— Annie Dillard
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This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because…
— Benjamin Harrison
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Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
— Marc Webb
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It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you…
— Frederick W Robertson
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Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness
— Confucius
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To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
— Confucius
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When God seems to close His ear, we must not therefore close our mouths but rather cry with more earnestness.
— Unknown Author
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Works,and not birth,determine one's place in the world.At all times one should work diligently and with earnestness.Hard work is praised.
— BUDDHISM
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