earnestness, n.All

Earnestness is having an honest distrust of oneself, to treat oneself as a suspicious character, as a financier treats an unreliable client.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

Earnestness is needed in this world as much as any virtue.