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The earth is not the property of one man or even an entire generation, but of all past, present and future generations who work on it.

—Leo Tolstoy

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

When her work is done, she forgets it.

—Laozi

We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

—Laozi

I have never failed, I’ve only shown the way I did it before doesn’t work.

—Thomas Edison

We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.

—Thomas Edison

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking

If we rest in Christ’s atoning work we shall do good works, but they will be the outcome of being saved and the outcome of believing on Christ as our sin-bearer. Our good works will not be the ground of our salvation, but the result of our salvation and the proof of it. 2/2

—R. A. Torrey

People respect idle, rich people, and not those who do work inarguably useful to everyone: farmers, laborers.

—Leo Tolstoy

“Rest in the finished work of the Lord Jesus, and put all your reliance upon him as crucified, risen, and pleading for his people.”

Charles Spurgeon

The application of Christ, by the work of regeneration, is that which yield unto men all the sensible sweetness and refreshing comforts that they have in Christ, and in all that he has done, suffered, or purchased for sinners.

—John Flavel

The work of the Spirit does not only evidence and manifest that difference which God’s election has made between man and man, but it also makes a twofold difference itself; namely in state and temper? whereby they visibly differ, not only from other men, but also from themselves.

—John Flavel

The work which has been intrusted to Christ is nothing less than that of reconciling the creation unto God.

—J. Gresham Machen

Let us consider that when we exercise ourselves in God’s praise, we are doing the work of angels and saints in glory.

—Jonathan Edwards

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

—Henry Ford

“May the Lord cause his Word to prove its power in us by its making us fruitful unto every good work to do his will.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Blessed be the name of our gracious God, he knows how to erase the evil and to cleanse the soul through his Holy Spirit’s applying the work of Jesus to us.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking

For the Holy Spirit comes in the Father’s and in the Son’s name and authority, to put the last hand to the work of our salvation, by bringing all the fruits of election and redemption home to our souls in this work.

—John Flavel

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

—Henry Ford

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

—Thomas Edison

No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.

—D. L. Moody

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

—Henry Ford

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.

—Michelangelo

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

—Michelangelo

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

—Blaise Pascal

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

—Michelangelo

When all the elect are brought home in a reconciled state in Christ, when the marriage of the Lamb is come, our work and office expire together.

—John Flavel