Toil Quotes

342 Toil quotes by 252 unique authors

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — John Stuart Mill
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens. — Rick Perry
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. — John Ruskin
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau
As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil… — Anthony Trollope
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity… — Ruskin Bond
Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
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. â€” 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

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