Earnestness Quotes

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

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption. — Mindy Kaling

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

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into. — Carl Jung

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

Sydney Katherine Sage," he said, his green eyes full of love and earnestness. "Would you do a brooding, deadbeat Moroi the honor of being his wife? — Richelle Mead

He gave her to understand that he had looked at her with some earnestness. She knew it well; and she remembered another person's look also. — Jane Austen

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