Toil Quotes

342 quotes by 252 authors

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. — John Sterling
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
Light is the task where many share the toil. — Homer
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. — Euripides
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. — Bertrand Russell
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
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. — Seneca the Younger
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
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
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
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue. — Charles Lamb
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
Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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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