Toil Quotes

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

Those who think must govern those that toil.

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

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.

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook.

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 the European Parliament.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.

Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

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 life everlasting.

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 honest toil in power.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.