This collection holds 225 toil quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Jean De La Fontaine, John Ruskin and Grover Cleveland.

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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. - Jean De La Fontaine

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, ... - John Ruskin

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

Success is the reward for toil.

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.

Those who think must govern those that toil.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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

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

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

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

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

At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

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

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

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

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

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

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

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

Some shall reap that never sow And some shall toil and not attain.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

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

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

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

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

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

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.

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

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

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

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

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