Toil Quotes

342 Toil quotes by 252 unique authors

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more… — Mary Wortley Montagu
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent… — Terry Eagleton
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,… — Tom Hodgkinson
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a… — William Butler Yeats
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It… — Calvin Coolidge
You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it… — John Adams
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… — Samuel Adams
...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were… — Jack London
On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down… — Jack London
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten… — Siobhan Dowd
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something… — Muriel Barbery
Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength;… — Winston Churchill
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience,… — Orson F. Whitney
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. — John Steinbeck
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents… — Upton Sinclair
A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work… — Oscar Wilde
Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies of the field.… — Sarah Rees Brennan
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live… — Miguel de Cervantes
…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been… — John Muir

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