Toil Quotes

342 Toil quotes by 252 unique authors

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
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who… — Calvin Coolidge
Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. — Henry Van Dyke
The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong… — Robert Southwell
The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities… — Unknown Author
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity,… — Joseph Story
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to… — James Madison
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it… — Alexander Hamilton
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people… — Calvin Coolidge
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and… — Walter Scott
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of… — Calvin Coolidge

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