Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of… — Dallas Willard 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
...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
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural… — John Muir Copy Share Image
On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered… — Jack London Copy Share Image
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for… — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled… — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil. — Democritus 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
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
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
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
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
