Top Earnest Quotes

Sometimes we pray earnestly, other times we only make a slight mention of a thing and with great expectation, we await the answers to our request. Yet, we are blown away at the fulfillment of the very...

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Earnest Definition

(n.) Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.

(a.) Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavor; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers.

(a.) Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention.

(a.) Serious; important.

(v. t.) To use in earnest.

(n.) Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come.

(n.) Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale.

She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were plenty of students my age and younger [...] their lives were so cloi...

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

They were both in their own ways earnest; they both wanted to achieve some worthy end or other, change the world for the better. Such alluring, such perilous ideals!

This generation is earnestly waiting for you, for a change