Travail Quotes

31 Travail quotes by 31 unique authors

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
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
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
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
Nations are born out of travail and suffering — Mahatma Gandhi
In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth. — Jessica Mitford
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
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
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
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
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
The work of creation is never without travail. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
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
But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail. — Julian of Norwich
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. — Theodore Dreiser
Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. — John L. Lewis
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets… — John Steinbeck
With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of… — Jack London

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