Toil Quotes

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

— Li Bai

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those who think must govern those that toil.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

— Euripides

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

— Sophocles

Nothing is achieved without toil.

— Horace

“Early sweats make up later pleasures”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

— Sophocles

Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.

— Samuel I. Prime

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?

— John Sullivan Dwight

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

— Livy

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

— Walter Scott

Some shall reap that never sow And some shall toil and not attain.

— Madison Cawein

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

— Bayard Taylor

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

— John Gay

At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

— Mignon McLaughlin

Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am…

— Thomas Wolfe

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

— Dean Koontz

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,…

— Karl Marx

Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at…

— Thomas Hood

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque…

— James Wolcott

Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

— John Vance Cheney

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands…

— Jack London

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think…

— Victor Hugo

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural…

— John Muir

Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more…

— Lucretius

Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It…

— Cindy Ross

Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil! Who from destruction save us; who from spoil Protect the sons of peace, who traffic…

— George Crabbe

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in…

— Horatius Bonar

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that…

— William Shakespeare

This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of…

— Walter Savage Landor

Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a…

— James Madison

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or…

— Horace Mann

I don't think that there's a target audience at all. These stories were in circulation. The stories were told by men, told…

— Marina Warner

To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne