Toil Quotes

342 Toil quotes by 252 unique authors

In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work. — David Berg
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat — Horace
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It… — Martial
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of… — James Russell Lowell
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life. — Aristotle
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded… — Samuel Johnson
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.… — John Armstrong
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. — Walter Scott
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. — William Cowper
Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more. — William Cowper
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. — Alexander Pope
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,… — Alexander Pope
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! — Alexander the Great
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. — Hesiod
Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it… — David Hume
Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush. — Ebenezer Elliott
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. — Matthew McConaughey
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek… — Ignatius Loyola
The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance. — Norman Vincent Peale
Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great;… — Theodore Roosevelt
Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some… — Matthew Arnold
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay. — John Muir

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