Eagerness Quotes
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Eagerness Quotes & Sayings
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Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
— H. P. Blavatsky
Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master.
— Radhanath Swami
I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.
— A.B. Shepherd
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.
— Charlotte Bronte
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action ... fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
— William Hazlitt
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
— Gary Shteyngart
I wonder if she allowed the man to see her eagerness and scared him? Possibly her failure to wait quietly caused him to "curtail the friendship".
— Elisabeth Elliot
All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
— Padma Lakshmi
We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
— Jacqueline Carey
To be strong doesn't fulfill your eagerness to win ... add a piece of confidence.. — Nathaniel E. Quimada
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
— Seth Godin
Homosexuality is not because of our sexual orientation, but our eagerness and enthusiasm for experiencing something new, different and unusual.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Oh," said Catherine, with some eagerness, "it doesn't take long to like a person - when once you begin.
— Henry James
Such eagerness to create space between present self and past sins obliges adults in the room to wonder whether callow youth has really wised up. "What
— Kai Ashante Wilson
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the end, it's all about the eagerness of your soul to grow through its journey in human flesh.
— Ben Tolosa
Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.
— Lord Chesterfield
But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.
— Orson Scott Card
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.
— Kim Edwards
The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
— Oswald Chambers
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I fear that in my eagerness to persuade you, I lost patience. And indeed I regret it.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
— Stephen Crane
Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.
— Mason Cooley
Enthusiasm and eagerness give life to our devotional service.
— Radhanath Swami
It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
— Jules Renard
No one touches you. Do you understand?" "Yes," I whispered. I hated the eagerness apparent in my voice. — B.B. Reid
Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?
— Bernhard Schlink
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
— Vladimir Nabokov
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.
— William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
— William Godwin
With all eagerness, pursues your sacred dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
