Earnest Quote by William Ellery Channing Download Open image “A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.” — William Ellery Channing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earnest Find me Ifs Inspirational Mean Men
Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge. — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds. — William Manchester Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when a man must forgo familiarity and venture into uncertainty; risking obscurity, but also quite possibly… finding meaning.” — Jerry J.C. Veit Copy Share Image
A man who really wants something will find a way; a man who doesnt will find an excuse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The multitudes are searching, and wandering in vain, for what they seek cannot be found in men. — Kansas Copy Share Image
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sends forth to you an earnest appeal. Open your doors to the missionaries. Open your minds… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are;… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy. — William Watson Copy Share Image