#earnest

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#boldness #completed #earnest #engage #genius

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#began #big #career #deal #divorced

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

— Winston Churchill

#business #earnest #game

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#barbarous #consider #considered #declare #desire

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

— Joaquin Phoenix

#earnest #everyone #many #movies #purpose

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#chicago #earnest #ernest #frank #man

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dinner #does #earnestness #his #man

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#earnestly #sense #some

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#aspire #changing #earnestly #frame #itself

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

— Dwayne Johnson

#energy #speaks #vibe #you