Quotes About Earnestness

Whatever I do, whether it sells or not, at least I mean it at the time and I'm honest about it. Which I think is the only way to be.

I'm pretty serious about what I do.

I really take acting seriously.

I take my work seriously.

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

There is an innocence in the very word "afternoon." Morning is for trains and business and hangovers, night is for love and burglary. The afternoon is the halcyon, the calm between earnestness and drama.

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

That feeling you had in the lower leagues, the hunger you need to win and even earn wages, has never left me.

Almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when our appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.

It is only when our appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.

Excuse me, sir, I ain't no politician! I prefer to be honest and work for my livin'!

Once when somebody produced a newspaper in which there was a letter of stupid abuse of Sir Joshua Reynolds, of which Johnson himself came in for a share,––'Pray (said he), let us have it read aloud from beginning to end'; which being done, he with a ludicrous earnestness, and not directing his look to any particular person, called out, 'Are we alive after all this satire?

The correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now. The correct attitude is that there is no such thing as an awakening that happens tomorrow. Tomorrows never come. The time is now. You must be sincere. Sincerity and earnestness are the most beneficial attitudes to have. (p. 109)

Such grace is never held in abeyance, never earned or deserved. It is not given to some and not to others. Grace is ever present; it is only our openness to it that comes and goes. In one sense, The Way of Liberation is a means of opening up to grace.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.

He sighed. "So I've gone and revealed how much I admire your work for nothing. Now you'll feel free to laze about self-importantly, I suppose!" "Viridius, no," I said, stepping toward him and impulsively kissing his balding head. "I'm well aware that that's your job." "Damned right," he grumpily. "And I've earned it, too.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time because hip is short term; earnest is long term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface… Fashion by the way is commerce masquerading as hip.

God does not want a church filled with white-robed saints. He does not want a church filled with theological authorities or cultured clergyman. He wants a church filled with ordinary men and women who exemplify the extraordinary integrity, temperament, wholeness, compassion, individuality, boldness, righteousness, earnestness, love, forgiveness, selflessness, and faithfulness of Jesus Christ!

I cannot be casual about my work.

He looked earnestly at me, as if that was important to me.

Being flippant was harder work than being earnest