Earnest Quotes

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.

If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman.

Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.

People sometimes actually get me to think I take things too seriously and maybe I'm too earnest and it's coming across like I'm better than them.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

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.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

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

Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

I opened my eyes and met his dark, earnest gaze. "It's okay," I said. "It's okay now. I'm here I'll always be here for you.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.

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

I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.