Eagerness Quotes

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of desire " ( “Crépuscule du désir “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe it wasn’t that simple. Maybe it wasn’t a matter of what she didn’t have, of what she wasn’t, but what she was.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“When passion meets work, work becomes a hobby.”
― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

“With little going for me other than unstoppable eagerness, a sense of total commitment, and a stubborn refusal to give up on what felt like a divinely ordained scheme, I cast myself upon the waters of the world’s oceans.”
― Roz Savage

“To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. In our eagerness to get rid of the legalistic doctrine of works we have thrown out the baby with the bath and gotten rid of obedience as well.”
― A.W. Tozer, Paths to Power

“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure

“Desire is the foundation of our greatness. Without it, we are stranded; we cannot go anywhere. You won't get, what you don't eagerly desire.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“Their locked hands offered a stark reminder of how many scars lingered … shards of war and distressing anguish forever branded them. Yet in this endearing moment of comfort, their adversity became skinspeak between survivors phoenixing from the ashes of their perilous journey—their burning eagerness for survival overcoming the forces that once tried to stifle their light.”
― Becca Vry, Musings: An Argyle Empire Anthology

“I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when we had met M. Legrandin; instead, I went downstairs to the kitchen to ask about the menu for our dinner, which was of fresh interest to me daily, like the news in a paper, and excited me as might the programme of a coming festivity.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“گريس خودش نمي دانست چقدر سرد است، فكر مي كرد اشتياقي كه نشان مي دهد بايد منجر به لذت هايي شود كه، در خلوت و خيال، با آنها آشنا بود، و احساس مي كرد از آن به بعدش را موري بايد به عهده بگيرد. كه نمي گرفت.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“Our temporal residence on earth must be lived with all eagerness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I'm eager to make more mistakes in order to succeed.”
― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

“Only those looking for profit will be eager to hear from you and leave immediately.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“... no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“The fire and passion in a militiaman’s eyes has not been extinguished; the brightness and eagerness remain. I want to be around such men, for they are the only ones worth knowing.”
― Mike Klepper

“Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“The world awaits your products. Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products. Begin to convert your time into products. Begin to gain the mastery over your talents and gifting.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“It demands desire of Zulykha
Loyalty of Angels
Vehemence of devils
And patience of Prophet
You may too need
God's mouth
To reveal rhyming letters”
― Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh

“Life on earth must be lived with wholehearted eagerness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Eagerness eliminates laxity and frivolity; it is a hunger that propels us to act with unrelenting effort. There is no stopping for a determined mind; even the possessor cannot restrain it.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“The singer wasn't ever the point, really; Maria Temple had helped me see that. In my eagerness to change, to connect with someone, I'd focused on the wrong thing, the wrong person.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“The difference between people with small eagerness and people with big goals is this: The first group gets tired even when they walk a hundred meters; the second group never gets tired even when they walk a thousand kilometres!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Faith is the eagerness to pray and hope for the best, even if your circumstance is too bad.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“He somehow managed to convey an eagerness to please yet was skeptical as to whether he should; it was a self-betrayal countenance.”
― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez