Toil Quotes

342 Toil quotes by 252 unique authors

The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So… — RuPaul
You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to… — John Wesley Powell
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite… — Karl Marx
Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. — Samuel Chadwick
It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil? — Mas Oyama
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put… — Denis Kearney
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of… — Marshall McLuhan
Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in… — Wilfred Owen
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. — Henry David Thoreau
I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable… — Winston Churchill
"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat,"… — Winston Churchill
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to… — Charles Churchill
The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of… — Samuel Johnson
If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses,… — William Shakespeare
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. — Hamlin Garland
Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of… — Milan Kundera
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All… — C.S. Lewis
The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot… — William Shakespeare
Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as… — Martin Luther
Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion,… — Thomas Paine
Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones.… — Pope John Paul II
Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil… — Werner Herzog
Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil. — Oliver Goldsmith

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