Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the… — Alexander Pope 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
Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure ,… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. — Seneca the Younger 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
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself,… — Adam Smith 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
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,… — Karl Marx 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
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
Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
