Determination Quote by Oswald Chambers

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full…

— Pankaj Mishra

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

— Charles Spurgeon

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

— Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

— Victor Hugo

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

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

— Marc Webb

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares…

— Confucius

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

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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 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

Being earnest and humble in our daily lives are important spiritual gifts we should practice each day. Try it and your lives will blossom!

— Anonymous