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Earnestness Quotes

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Heinrich Böll
Seriousness, Earnestness
Heinrich Böll (1984). “What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books”, p.40, Northwestern University Press

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

Soren Kierkegaard
Observers, Earnestness
The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Pap VI B 120:13), 1845.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Victor Hugo
Salt, Eloquence, Earnestness

Earnestness alone makes life eternity.

Thomas Carlyle
Eternity, Earnestness
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

Time and pains will do anything.

Frederick William Robertson
Pain, Earnestness
Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.53

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Corita Kent
Inspirational, Sincerity, Earnestness

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Devotion, Faculty, Earnestness
"Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

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

Charles Spurgeon
Mean, Reactionaries, Earnestness
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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

Carl Jung
World, Kind, Earnestness
Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.33, North Atlantic Books

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Alphonse de Lamartine
Enthusiasm, Intoxication, Earnestness

Earnestness is the most important thing.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Important, Important Things, Earnestness

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

Ramakrishna
Realizing, Sincerity, Earnestness
Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Marc Webb
Earnestness, Sentimentality
"Interview: Marc Webb Talks 500 Days Of Summer, Cheesy Vs. Lame, Zooey, And Sundance". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. July 17, 2009.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Method, Earnestness
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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