Eagerness Quotes

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

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.

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.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

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

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.

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

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

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.