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“Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.”

Work Prayer Ought Answers To Prayer Answered Prayers Prayers Not Being Answered

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.”

Men Children Work He Man Ought Responsible Injustice Sake Employment Torture Enterprise Labour Remedy Thirst Unemployment Starvation Private Enterprise

Author:David Lloyd George

“Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.”

“We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.”

Mean Work Ought Profound Recognise Livelihood

Book:The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright

“The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.”

Work Ought Terrible Doctrine

Book:Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography

Source: Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography

“The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.”

Form Work Opinion Industry Ought Majority Branches Good Work Wages Workmen

Book:On Liberty: Mill's Works

Source: On Liberty: Mill's Works

“What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.”

Years Motivational Lasts Motivation Work Economy Creative Imagine Ought Fifty Teamwork Imagine That Creative Work

Author:Stephen Leacock

“The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.”

People World Feelings Happiness Time Born Work Results Our Lives One Thing Ought Contrary Vague Full Life

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.”

Life Wells Doe Stills Work Masters Ought Honor Glory Soldier Possession Workmen Precious Possessions

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V