Earnest Quotes

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

Grant is of medium stature, yet has a well-developed physique, sandy whiskers and moustache, blue eyes, earnest, thoughtful, and far-seeing, a cigar in his mouth, a knife in one hand, and a stick in the other, which he is whittling to a point. He whittles slowly towards him. His thoughts are not yet crystallized. His words are few. Suddenly he commences upon the other end of the stick, and whittles energetically from him. His mind is made up,--his plan matured. He is less reticent,--talks freely. He is dressed in plain blue; and were it not for the three stars upon his shoulder, few would select him as the Lieutenant-General commanding all the armies of the Union in the field.

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

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

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

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

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

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

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

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

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

'Carrie Diaries' is very heartfelt and earnest in a lot of ways.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

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.

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

He was a Communist.

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