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Work Quotes by George MacDonald
- God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the…
- Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with its back to…
- I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his…
- When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
- Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation…
- I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of…
- This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
- All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the…
- It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
- The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given…
- Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out…
- Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
- If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence
- I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his…
- To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly…
- He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give…
- Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If…
- God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach