Earnest Quotes

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

In married life three is company and two none.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you cope today if you will lay your human-size needs at his divine feet.