Our great weariness comes from work not done.
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Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
ERIC HOFFER The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
ERIC HOFFER The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
ERIC HOFFER Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIRE How everything comes??
I really don't know I can say that it comes from nowhere :D :d.
DEYTH BANGER Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.
JEFFREY FRY We talked about how we worked with Eric and what great things he's done for this district.
CONNIE BOESEN Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is a...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
FERNANDO FLORES Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
FERNANDO FLORES With some craftsmen, the majority of their work comes from our company.
FRED HARMS Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great.
NELSON RIOS Good work comes with great fun!
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
GLORIA STEINEM Salvation comes from the Lord. Not from our intellect.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after...
THEODORE RUBIN Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes aft...
THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after...
THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and compos...
MARCEL PROUST Whether that comes from work between Norwood and the White House, or whether it comes from our work ...
DICK ARMEY We are shopping Eric. Obviously, we would much rather have Eric released. But if we can work out a t...
GREG JOHNSON Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
SACHA GUITRY Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Our wisdom comes from our experience,
and our experience comes from our foolishness.
SACHA GUITRY There's weariness and frustration. But that's different from active, nationwide protests.
WHIT AYRES A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
JOHN MAXWELL I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
ROSE KENNEDY Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
There's some truth to that. With offense, there's a lot more timing involved and things like that. I...
ALBERT YOUNG Eric was our baby and he was our baby.
ANNE REEVES I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
MAHERSHALA ALI Respect comes not from respecting to one another, but from knowing our differences.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM Our happiness comes from the land and work and the traditional lifestyle. We're preserving what make...
CARY LIGHTSEY We very carefully manage the work that is not done on our soil.
JULIE KING Ariel: “Eric!”
Eric: “Do not sing me back to shore! Not until you are standing on two fee...
KHALIA N. HADES I told Eric not to throw an interception or get sacked, just get it off. He made a great throw and B...
BILL SCOTT Our satisfaction comes from seeing these kids win ball games because of all the hard work they've pu...
TONY WAGNER Sam had a great night. She comes to work every night.
CHRIS WEBSTER I'd done some work with Bill in the past. And Bill hired me! He came back and said 'yeah, I'll direc...
ERIC NEWMAN A lot of people knew who Eric was. You didn't go in Casey's and not know Eric.
ANNE REEVES Through great collaboration between our Playhouse Disney team, The Baby Einstein Company, Eric Weine...
GARY MARSH He beat Wahpeton's No. 1 player in the state-qualifier round. Eric had a great weekend. For a first-...
GREG LADOUCEUR Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at...
IGOR STRAVINSKY The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an...
T. B. JOSHUA A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.
GILES DULEY Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.
ALVARO ENRIGUE Jehovah chose to do great things through me. I lay my life in total humility never to take the Glory...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR None of that would have happened had it not been for the marches. But our work is not done.
DOLORES HUERTA The majority of our work is done,
LARRY MILLER The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD From my perspective, I'll take a great idea from wherever it comes.
ANDREA WONG It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebi...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And you are mine, and you will be mine. They
will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone
CHARLAINE HARRIS If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast
GEORGE HERBERT A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.
KIM WESTON I have done my work for the people and that will speak for me when the time comes.
DATUK G. PALANIVEL That's my style. I learned that from [Dodgers closer] Eric Gagne.
GUILLERMO MOTA Eric and Eddie have really done a lot for Brittany. She has just really blossomed. I thought Eric mi...
KATHY MCCAULEY We are immortal until our work on earth is done.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
ZIG ZIGLAR We must strive to let go our life as we planned,so as to have life we are destined for & that comes ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There is a gigantic amount of work done, but it's great for California.
ANDREA SEASTRAND From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Our competence comes from God's grace.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Our imagination comes from Gods dream.
KOWSALAPATHY I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.
JENNY LEWIS All good comes from following God, and all evil comes from not.
JIM GENOVESE Death is not a punishment it's our retirement from our long work called life.
KOWSALAPATHY Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
RALPH NADER Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best w...
W. E. B. DU BOIS Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
DAVID GUETTA Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have th...
CONFUCIUS Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have th...
WILSON MIZNER Exercise is labor without weariness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It was common procedure for Eric Johnson to determine what needed fixing and get it done. That was w...
SUSAN CERBONE The great knowledge of the future comes from knowing the past.
ANDONI GARCIA The great knowledge of the future comes from knowing your past.
ANDONI GARCIA Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
JOSEPH BARBARA The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and ...
AASIF MANDVI All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geom...
ELLSWORTH KELLY Energy comes not from your muscle neither from your heart. It comes from your inner source.
AMIT RAY Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
LARS ULRICH We are very excited to be adding both Harold and Eric to our scouting staff. We feel very strongly t...
DAVE NONIS We had a very efficient spring. We came in, we took care of business, we got our work done and we go...
AARON HARANG True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I'm sure in some form they'll be tough. Jefferson comes from the Concorde, which is great in basebal...
GALVIN MORRIS To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day withreverence for the oppo...
THOMAS DEKKER Greg played a great game. Our seniors have done a great job this year.
CORKY CARD The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The bottom line is they want Eric to take a drastic cut and we don't feel his skills have diminished...
GREG JOHNSON I'm not really sure what we'll do there. We'll have to work through what comes across from Optus and...
GARRY HENLEY Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
ARAB PROVERB Everything was his way or the highway, which was good. We came home and we weren't going anywhere un...
MARCUS GINYARD Abundance comes from giving not from receiving.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.
PAULO COELHO We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learni...
MARCIA FUDGE She's got a great effect on other people. When she comes to practice, she comes to work. She doesn't...
DON GIBB All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
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