Earnestness Quote by William James Download Open image “Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earnestness Energy Mean Pain Willingness
“Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. The pain may be pain to other people or pain to one's self — it makes little difference; for when the strenuous mood is on one, the aim is to break something, no matter whose or what. Nothing annihilates an inhibition as irresistibly as anger does it; for, as… — William James Copy Share
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Strive to be active rather than lethargic—determined rather than wavering or lazy.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Someone once said, earnest desire creates connections, and only memories will bring those moments to life — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as… — William James Copy Share
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and belief, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it… — William James Copy Share
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and the waves sparkling and the sea-gulls circling around Fort Wagner's ancient site. But the great earthworks and their thundering cannon, the commanders and their followers, the wild assault and repulse that for a brief space made… — William James Copy Share
We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ...… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
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