Definition of Eagerness

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Definition of Eagerness
	Eagerness The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. Tartness; sourness. Related Definitions: Ardent, Being, Desire, Eager, Of, Or, Quality, Sourness, State, Tartness, The

Eagerness Quotations

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Irving Babbitt

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Desiderius Erasmus

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
William Godwin

When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
Randy Neugebauer

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
Zane Grey

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.
James Hogg

Eagerness Translations

eagerness in Latin is studium
eagerness in Norwegian is iver

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