Top 579 Earnest Quotes & Sayings

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

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

Life is earnest - and always has been.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind." Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

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

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

I just really like it when things are earnest.

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

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

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

With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band.

There are no perfect answers. The earnest search is all we can expect.

When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

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

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

The Right is incredibly deft at getting earnest about all the wrong things.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

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

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

I was an earnest young man who just wanted to make music.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

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

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

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

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

When you're younger, you're going to be cast as the heroic, earnest leading man.