Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre… — Horace Copy Share Image
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate… — John Milton Copy Share Image
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Vineyards and shining harvests, pastures, arbors, And all this our very utmost toil Can hardly care for, we wear down our strength… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away) — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau 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
From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image