Earnestness Quotes

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. - Sarojini Naidu

We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves. - Charles Caleb Colton

We appeal with great earnestness for the leadership of Iran to again give us such a signal. - Martin Jaeger

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

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

The wise man keeps earnestness as his best jewel. - Friedrich Max Muller

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. - Thomas Howard