Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
— Thomas Howard
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
— Charles Darwin
The hundred nights they'd sat up arguing the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall
— Cormac McCarthy
Time and pains will do anything.
— Frederick William Robertson
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness, said old Roger Chillingworth, smiling at him.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
— Gillian Flynn
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
— Charles Spurgeon
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
— William Feather
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.
— Sharon Salzberg
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
— Frederick William Robertson
A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.
— D.H. Lawrence
Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
— Marc Webb
Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.
— Randy Pausch
BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given. — Ambrose Bierce
With an earnestness that would be laughable in a person who wasn't from Wisconsin. — Jennifer Egan
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. — Blaise Pascal
Earnestness alone makes life eternity. — Thomas Carlyle
I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness. — Matt Lauria
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. — Khaled Hosseini
All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces. — Henry Ward Beecher
Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous. — Corita Kent
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence. — Victor Hugo
With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. — Ramakrishna
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness. — Charles Dickens
he kissed me with earnestness, banging his lips against my teeth and covering me with saliva from nose to chin. — Amy Tan
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness! — Heinrich Boll
What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence! — Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Earnestness is the most important thing. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
They looked at the world with an impractical, luminous earnestness that moved her, but never convinced her. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. — Soren Kierkegaard
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein
God does not hear us because we pray earnestly - He hears us solely on the basis of redemption. God is never impressed by our earnestness. — Oswald Chambers
I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be. — Jenny Slate
If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly. — Frederick Lenz
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. — Samuel Johnson
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. — Abu Bakr
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
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on. — Miranda Raison
Of his. The same earnestness that had stopped her from killing that insane Joruus C'baoth back on Jomark. — Timothy Zahn
Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life. — Theodore Parker
Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right. — Sage Francis
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them. — Arthur W. Pink
I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others. — Nicholas Sparks
Beloved, it is not office - it is earnestness; it is not position - it is grace which will enable us to glorify God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul. — Hannah More
Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things. — James Freeman Clarke
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. — Alphonse De Lamartine
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu
Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it. — Jeffrey Zaslow
