Toil Quotes

342 Toil quotes by 252 unique authors

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed! — Petrarch
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. — Samuel Johnson
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. — Herman Melville
If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning. — Euripides
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with… — W. E. B. Du Bois
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear. — Walter Smith
Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils. — John Ford
Success is the reward for toil. — Sophocles
Have enough faith in the love of God to believe that a short heartfelt prayer is just as good as a long one. Too long… — Emmet Fox
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs… — Thomas Carlyle
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. — Unknown Author
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear… — Herbert Marcuse
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard. — Rocco DiSpirito
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that… — Barry Hannah
I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still… — Celia Imrie
Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to… — Gautama Buddha
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought… — Robert A. Heinlein
All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things. — Alfred the Great

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