We want deeper sincerity of motive a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

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

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English but with not one recognizable syllable.