#Earnestness Quotes

“Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.”

“Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.”

“Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.”

“I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”

“Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.”

“The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.”

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

“There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.”

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

“He that can toy with his ministry and count it to be like a trade, or like any other profession, was never called of God. But he that has a charge pressing on his heart, and a woe ringing in his ear, and preaches as though he heard the cried of hell behind him, and saw his God looking down on him-oh, how that man entreats the Lord that his hearers may not hear in vain!”

“Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.”