Earnestness Quotes

Earnestness Quote of the day

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.

The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

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.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

Time and pains will do anything.

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

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

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.

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

Earnestness is the most important thing.

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.