Josiah Gilbert Holland - Work Quotes

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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it — that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

Josiah Gilbert Holland
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Josiah Gilbert Holland