Earnestness Quotes

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Prayer, Soul, Feelings

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

  Sarojini Naidu

  Inspiring, Courage, Speech

  Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”

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• Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

  Blaise Pascal

  Integrity, Enthusiasm, Reason

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• Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Pain, Light, Giving

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

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• Up, then, with speed, and work;
  Fling ease and self away--
  This is no time for thee to sleep--
  Up, watch, and work, and pray!

  Horatius Bonar

  Sleep, Self, Watches

  Horatius Bonar (1858). “Hymns of Faith and Hope ... Third edition”, p.262

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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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• We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Ought, Lays

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Long, Age

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.107, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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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

  Moving, Men, Soul

  Peter Bayne (1879). “Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin”

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

  Charles Dickens

  Sincere, Substitutes, Ardent

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4820, Delphi Classics

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• Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eternity

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind." Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

  Geoff Dyer

  Writing, People, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Truth, Justice, Retreat

  The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831 (first issue)

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• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  Determination, Mean, Pride

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• Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Devotion, Faculty

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Honesty, Mean, Thinking

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.52, Penguin

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• Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

  Victor Hugo

  Salt, Eloquence

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• My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

  Christian Scriver

  Life And Death, Way, Helping

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems, Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made”, p.145

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

  Mindy Kaling

  Media, People, Faces

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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

  Heart, Greatness, Men

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

  Theodore Parker

  Satisfaction, Life Is, Passports

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Food, Thinking, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales”, p.390

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• Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

  Corita Kent

  Inspirational, Sincerity

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• The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Wine, Clear Head

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