Toil Quotes
342 quotes by 252 authors
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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
— John Sterling
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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
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
— Homer
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Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
— Euripides
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
— Bertrand Russell
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Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
— Alexander the Great
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The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
— Seneca the Younger
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
— Thomas Jefferson
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On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil,…
— Max Perutz
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We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is…
— Johannes Kepler
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I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.
— Charles Lamb
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
— Unknown Author
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It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us…
— Orson F. Whitney
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In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments,…
— Babe Paley
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We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with…
— Susa Young Gates
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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
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
— Seneca the Elder
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