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Tag Name "Earnestness" (66)

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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
Victor Hugo
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Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
Corita Kent
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
William James
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
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Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
Marc Webb
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal
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Earnestness is good it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
Charles Spurgeon
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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
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Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
William Feather
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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.
William Mountford
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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.
William Wilberforce
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
Frederick William Robertson
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For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying.
Stephen Dobyns
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The cynic makes fun of all earnestness he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.
George Edgar Vincent
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
Thomas Carlyle
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
Gillian Flynn
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Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ.
Thomas Guthrie
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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
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Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
Heinrich Böll
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Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it but people are yearning for it.
Jeffrey Zaslow
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[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.
Albert Einstein
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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.
John Calvin
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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