Earnest Quotes - Page 18

• Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Firsts, Said, First Time

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “The Demon's Surrender”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did

  Sarah Dessen

  Years, Car, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.4, Penguin

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

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Library, Rooms

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• To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.119, 谷月社

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• You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

  Oscar Wilde

  Names, Looks, Answers

  Oscar Wilde (1957). “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version”, p.8, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

  Marie Curie

  Determination, Ambition, Desire

  Marie Curie (1921). “The Discovery of Radium: Address by Madame M. Curie at Vassar College, May 14, 1921”

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• For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

  Bertrand Russell

  Years, Two, Morality

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.120, Routledge

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• The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.

  B. C. Forbes

  Boys, Office, Brain

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• Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Fall, Passion, Son

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• The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  People, Justice, World

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• Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love, Christian, Dream

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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• People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Accomplishment, Expectations

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• My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Heart, Journey

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• Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

  Adam Smith

  Ambition, Independent, Circles

  Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.

  Robert Browning

  Dream, Prayer, Memories

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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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

  Men, World, He Man

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.52

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• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.

  Vincent de Paul

  World, Glitter, Sparkle

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• I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Years, Tuesday, Mind

  Sir James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace (1916). “Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (Complete)”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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• It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

  John Muir

  Earthquakes, People, Interesting

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

  Alice Walker

  Meaningful, Teaching, Circles

  Alice Walker (1987). “Meridian: a novel”, Isis Large Print Books

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• Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Fickle, Uniforms

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a man who prays and his strength and his power cannot by exaggerated. Just give to a man this power of prayer and you give him almost omnipotence.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Prayer, Motivation, Inspiration

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1922). “The Wisdom and Wit of T. De Witt Talmage”

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• He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Dancer, Twelve

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories”, p.170, The Floating Press

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• With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Liars, Lying, Wrath

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• There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Writing, Ideas

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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