Earnest Quotes

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest,
except such as admire us.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.

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

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.

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

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

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

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

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

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

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

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.

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

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

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.