EARNESTNESS

Related Subjects: Gravity, Industry, Resolution, Zeal

1. Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. It is the cause of patience; gives endurance; overcomes pain; strengthens weakness; braves dangers; sustains hope; makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.—C. N. BOVEE
   

2. A man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find, creates them.—W. E. CHANNING
   

3. The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.—CONFUCIUS, Analects
   

4. There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere earnestness.—DICKENS
   

5. I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!—W. L. GARRISON, Salutatory of the Liberator
   

6. Earnestness commands the respect of mankind. A wavering, vacillating, dead-and-alive Christian does not get the respect of the Church or of the world.—JOHN HALL
   

7. Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.—PASCAL