Earnest

Earnest may refer to:

People:

  • Earnest Byner (born 1962), former National Football League (NFL) running back
  • Charles Earnest Moody (1891–1977), American gospel song writer and performer
  • Earnest Elmo Calkins (1868-1964), early advertising innovator
  • Earnest Graham (born 1980), NFL running back
  • Earnest Gray (born 1957), former NFL wide receiver
  • Earnest Hooton (1887-1954), American physical anthropologist
  • Earnest Jackson (born 1959), former NFL running back
  • Earnest Mudzengi, Zimbabwean politician
  • Earnest Rhone (born 1953), former NFL linebacker
  • Les Earnest (born 1930), American computer scientist

Ships:

  • Earnest class destroyer, a destroyer class of the British Royal Navy
    • HMS Earnest (1896), a destroyer in the class

Famous quotes containing the word earnest:

    “What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”
    —Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

    “Columbus has sailed westward of these isles by the mariner’s compass, but neither he nor his successors have found them. We are no nearer than Plato was. The earnest seeker and hopeful discoverer of this New World always haunts the outskirts of his time, and walks through the densest crowd uninterrupted, and, as it were, in a straight line.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “That high All-seer which I dallied with
    Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head,
    And given in earnest what I begged in jest.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)