87 Earnest Quotes for You to Enjoy

We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential. Ryan Holiday

Work Freedom Respect Creative Goals Matter Power Important Earnest Our Peers Recognition Out Vanity Potential Pursue Accomplishments Selfishness Personal Want Fulfill Creative Work Desire

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies. Confucius

Love Friendship Time Good Home Youth Opportunity Earnest Respectful Abroad Studies He Performance Employ Overflow Polite Cultivate His Truthful After Them Elders Should Things

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

Politics Game Business Earnest

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

Humble Try Christian Earnest Concern Chief Chief Concern

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. Charles Dickens

Life Myself Great Heart Whatever Earnest Aims Thoroughly All My Heart Tried Small Well Devoted Always Been

It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days. Saint Patrick

God Me Heart Grace Care Long Earnest Hunters Would Put Days Come Any Should Whom Last

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. Barack Obama

Work Today World Better Tears Earnest Took Our Bit Sure Making Leave Lot Blood Begin Than Begun Get Just Just A Little Bit Where Children Little Little Bit Sweat Inhabit

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America. Louis Farrakhan

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! William Lloyd Garrison

Will Single Earnest Excuse Retreat Am Heard Inch

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. Henry David Thoreau

You Earnest Squirrel Dies Jest

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Confucius

Knowledge Earnest Possession Born Seeking Fond Am Antiquity Who

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth. Mahatma Gandhi

Truth Humble Earnest Seeker Am Very After

I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances. Dwayne Johnson

Time Earnest Would Only Through Knew Performance Come Credibility

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead. Flip Wilson

Funny Humor Earnest Only Dead The Only Thing Fun Thing Things

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People Earnest Thoughtful Thoughtful People Shaky Footing Public Stand Deeply

You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad. Richard Engel

Love You Liberty Prosperity Victory Few Military Earnest Hopeful Baghdad Names Gotta Camp Just Military Bases Bases Eager

AIM started in 1997, and I remember when I started using it in earnest, in 1999, when I joined TheStreet.com from 'The San Jose Mercury News'. We digital journalism pioneers communicated obsessively by AIM, and as a newbie, I recall being amazed that the whole newsroom was 'chatting' this way. Adam Lashinsky

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest. Adriana Trigiani

'Mr. Robot,' in particular, signals the rise of a fresh post-Occupy portrayal of the wealth gap. No longer is the story of income inequity delivered via a well-meaning, crushingly earnest indie film by John Sayles or in a single laugh line on 'Roseanne.' Alissa Quart

Wealth Single Robot Earnest Laugh Signals John Indie Indie Film Rise Delivered Longer Particular Well-Meaning Inequity Fresh Line Via Story Gap Film Income Portrayal

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

Earnest Easy Cabaret Venues Get

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest. Andrew Weil

Government Will Pay Earnest Must Physicians Insurance Insurance Companies Private Encourage Offer Owned Whether Turn Measures Companies Compelled Treatments

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

Truth Earnest On The Contrary More True Always Error Contrary Than Often

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