Careful Quote by Confucius

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he…

— Max Muller

“He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest man when…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

— Victor Hugo

“I’LL TAKE an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes…

— Randy Pausch

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah,…

— Geoff Dyer

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

— Confucius

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one,…

— John Sterling

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