Earnest Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less,…

— Charles Kingsley

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

Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

— Jean Cocteau

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

— Samuel Johnson

“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

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

— Horace

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

— Anonymous

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

— John Fletcher