“In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it. — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil? — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain.… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the… — David Berg Copy Share Image
On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews… — Mencius Copy Share Image
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor… — John Smith Copy Share Image
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image