Earnestness Quotes

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Time and pains will do anything.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Earnestness is the most important thing.

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

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.