Earnest Quotes
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.
I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.
Quit thinking that tomorrow your problems will go away and life will begin in earnest. The Lord is waiting to help you cope today if you will lay your human-size needs at his divine feet.
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.
My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.
I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
I started doing regional theater. My first job was "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Dallas Theater Center.
I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
