Toil Quotes

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

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

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

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.

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

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

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.

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

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

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?

No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

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 cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!