Eager Quotes

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Age, Morning

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Zi

Him, Others, Deception

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Saint Augustine

Love, Fear, Jealousy

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins

Sad, Thought, Why

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
T. S. Eliot

Christmas, Moving, Between

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Chekhov

Lonely, Talk, Minds

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Tired, Book

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James A. Baldwin

Through, State, Born

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
Zhang Ziyi

Friendship, Him, Two

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus

God, Willing, Join

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
Bryant H. McGill

Rather, Read, Curiosity

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
Jay-Z

Money, Made, Rich

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
Lee Iacocca

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.
Simon Mainwaring

Respect, Today, May

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
Sitting Bull

Learned, Learn, Days

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Truth, Happy, Liar

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
John Templeton

Humble, May, Become

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Wanted, Knowing, Read

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
Michael Pollan

Time, History, Same

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Jean Baudrillard

Women, Themselves, Audience

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
Frank A. Clark

Ignorance, Reason, Share

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery Channing

Smile, Ignorance, Person

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Nothing, Easy, Since

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
Tom Peters

Challenge, Ready, Africa

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
Taylor Caldwell

Live, Soul, Race

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
Edward Thorndike

Human, Find, Matter

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Experience, Old, Gain

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.
John Doolittle

Life, Made, America

I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.
Werner Herzog

Time, Films, Sit

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Walter Pater

Life, Human, Philosophy

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