Top Earnestness Quotes
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
John Woolman
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Annie Dillard
Samuel Johnson 
P. J. O'Rourke 
Sarojini Naidu 
John Strachan 
Benjamin Harrison All Earnestness Quotes
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius 
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We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Sarojini Naidu
61% of people like this quote
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
John Woolman
56% of people like this quote
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Annie Dillard
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This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
Benjamin Harrison
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In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.
John Strachan
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
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