Toil Quotes

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone...The toil of this journey, our journey, is the map for those who will follow.

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign.

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

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.

Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.

In Heaven we shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no pain in the work.

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

Nothing is achieved without toil.

The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

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 human race.

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.

Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?

Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.