#earnest

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? ↗

— Dave Barry

#bent #earnest #keep #knees #learn

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#jack #oscar-wilde #the-importance-of-being-earnest #change

There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#gullibility #honesty #think

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. ↗

— John Lancaster Spalding

#doubt #earnest #faith #found #half

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contrary #earnest #error #more #often

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

#because #being #concern #czar #earnestness

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. ↗

— Martin Luther

#asked #call #certainly #desired #earnestly

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

— Sarojini Naidu

#courage #deeper #earnestness #greater #motive

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#made #see #set #then #you