A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil, Lay down the wreck… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil. — Democritus Copy Share Image
O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his… — Douglas MacArthur 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
The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n;… — William Watson Copy Share Image
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood. — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So there was not an "I" anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
