Earnestness
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[edit] Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow.
- Peter Bayne, p. 205.
- Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away —
This is no time for thee to sleep —
Up, watch, and work, and pray!- Horatius Bonar, p. 206.
- Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.
- Christian Nestell Bovee, p. 205.
- Child of earth and earthly sorrows — child of God and immortal hopes — arise from thy sadness, gird up the loins of thy mind, and with unfaltering energy press toward thy rest and reward on high.
- Elias Lyman Magoon, p. 205.
- This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
- Frederick William Robertson, p. 205.
- My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.
- Christian Scriver, p. 206.
- The best way for a man to get out of a lowly position is to be conspicuously effective in it. Rouse to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's happiness shalt know.
- Carlos Wilcox, p. 205.
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- Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men, he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it the depth of shadow.
- A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no peace.
- Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.
- There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere earnestness.
- He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
