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Tag Name "Earnestness" (76)

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Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
Charles Dickens
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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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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
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[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.
Madame de Stael
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I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy or whatever, the writing would fall apart. This book [Lincoln in the Bardo] was going to have to have some earnestness in it.
George Saunders
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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.
Rachel Griffiths
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Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow.
Peter Bayne
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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.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
Oscar Wilde
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal
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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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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
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Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.
Sharon Salzberg
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My brain has no heart, and my heart has no brain. That's why when I speak my mind, I appear heartless and when I do what's in my heart I seem thoughtless.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Earnestness is good it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.
Charles Spurgeon
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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.
Baba Hari Dass
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Time and pains will do anything.
Frederick William Robertson
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The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
Theodore Parker
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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.
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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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
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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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