Travail Quotes
31 quotes by 31 authors
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The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a…
— Samuel Chadwick
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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We…
— Richard Baxter
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I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be…
— James A. Michener
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Nations are born out of travail and suffering
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime
— Ben Sidran
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People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments…
— Bob Newhart
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou…
— Seneca the Younger
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In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause…
— Nicholas Grimald
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A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He…
— Robert Briffault
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It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
— Jessica Mitford
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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion,…
— Plato
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Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost,…
— Oswald J. Smith
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Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises…
— Jim Bishop
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Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in…
— Parker J. Palmer
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The work of creation is never without travail.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I hope I have a few years left in my 'last days,' but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
Who Wrote These Travail Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 31 Travail Quotes, led by these top contributors: