Earnest Quotes

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, Whether, Turn

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.
Frank B. Kellogg

Work, Peace, Humanity

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
Frank B. Kellogg

True, Start, Desire

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
Emilio Estevez

Optimistic, Definition

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.
America Ferrera

Happy, Important, Person

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Truth, Forward, Effort

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
Frank B. Kellogg

Peace, War, Confidence

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
Frederick William Robertson

Work, God, Failure

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
Georg Buchner

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace

Family, Best, Mind

There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
Maggie Q

Sexy, Deep, Nothing

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.
Claire Danes

Off, Three, Accepting

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.
Janet Reno

Hope, America, Violence

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

Wife, Career, Pretty

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

Easy, Venues, Cabaret

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.
Julianna Baggott

Truth, Art, Confidence

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Robert Dale Owen

Men, Bravery, Whose

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South

Against, Needs, Temptation

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Work, Effort, Needs

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
Walton Goggins

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.
Gray Davis

Power, Single, Before

In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
Ellie Kemper

Hope, Deep, Nothing

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
Helen Fielding

Work, Money, Finance

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
Adrien Brody

Boring, Terribly

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

Love, Old, Around

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
Eisaku Sato

Hope, May, Nuclear

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.
Jon Favreau

Job, Around, Difficult

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.
Anna Camp

Job, Started, Importance

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
Richard Francis Burton

Angry, Daily, Passion

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.
Tran Duc Luong

Peace, Justice, Share

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