Earnestness Quotes

71 Earnestness quotes by 64 unique authors

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there… — Elizabeth Prentiss
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the… — Thomas Carlyle
In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into. — Carl Jung
The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one… — Scott Morrison
I wouldn't have a face like that,' proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness, 'not if you gave me a million dollars.' He… — P.G. Wodehouse
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar,… — Philip Neri
Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are… — Ibn Hazm
With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the Vedantists, and the… — Ramakrishna
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It… — C.S. Lewis
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. — Mindy Kaling
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite — Gillian Flynn
In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life.… — David Brainerd
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. — Oscar Wilde
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness! — Heinrich BÃ¶ll
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. — Charles Spurgeon
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. — Ramakrishna
There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it… — Rachel Griffiths
The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary… — Winston Churchill
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. — Confucius
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. — Samuel Johnson
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. — Blaise Pascal
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your… — Nicholas Sparks

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