Earnest Quotes
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I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
Walton Goggins
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I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.
Ada Lovelace -
I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Oscar Wilde -
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Charles Dickens -
It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
Chuck Berry -
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Samuel Johnson -
It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
Adrien Brody
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Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.
William McDonough -
Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.
John Tillotson -
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 -
Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.
William Watson -
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.
Kristen Stewart -
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.
William Howard Taft
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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
William James -
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison -
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
William Hazlitt -
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.
Colin Meloy -
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
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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing -
The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy.
Witness Lee -
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.
George Washington -
Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable
Stephen Dunn