Quotes About Earnestness

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

Live earnestly and respond consciously with love.

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.

Can you be serious for two words?""Not without effort.

Two of them certainly, all of them probably, had been disciples of the Baptist. This fact is decisive as to their moral earnestness.

Poetry is the subject at present of much prose criticism, prose exposition, and prose controversy; but the controversialists are largely the poets themselves, or those who aspire to the title. The subject is treated by them with much earnestness, indeed with some little heat; and it is easy to perceive that the main object of most of the disputants is to establish the superiority of the poet whom the critic himself most admires, and possibly whom he himself most resembles.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.

Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.

You're a serious one, aren't you?" I confirmed that I was and always would be: a serious infant, a serious child, a serious teenager, a serious student, a serious adult.

You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.