Business Quote by Charles Spurgeon

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method…

— Oswald Chambers

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

— Blaise Pascal

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

— Marc Webb

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

— Jeffrey Zaslow

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

— Victor Hugo

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

— James Freeman Clarke

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The reasons for our prolific understating are not hard to discover: our strict prohibitions on earnestness, gushing, emoting and boasting require almost constant use…

— Kate Fox

“Unrestrained urge is promiscuity while passion refined is romanticism.”

— B.S. Murthy