Earnestness Quotes

Earnestness can go wrong in hip hop. On this album, it goes very right.

If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.