With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, may form the two sides of the ladder on which some men mount, but the rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff to stand wear and tear; and there is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!
The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.
I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind. " Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.
It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.
Time and pains will do anything.
I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
. . . our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.
