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
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. — Henry David Thoreau 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
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 Copy Share Image
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque… — James Wolcott 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 Hale Copy Share Image
Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that… — Homer Copy Share Image
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take… — Elizabeth Chase Allen 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
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
I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands… — Jack London Copy Share Image
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the… — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Work is a means; it is not an end. And for any tasks that can be performed or eliminated by a capital… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
