When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. — Henry David Thoreau 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
Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work.… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and… — Mencius Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats 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
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have… — Gerard Manley Hopkins 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
Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire; Blest that abode, where want… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the… — Henry George 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
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
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
