Toil Quotes - Page 2 of 5

• William Shenstone / Poet

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

• Alexander Pope / Poet

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

• John Steinbeck / Author

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

• Max Beerbohm / Essayist

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

• Bayard Taylor / Poet

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

• Mortimer Adler / Philosopher

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

• Alfred The Great / King Of Wessex

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

• Douglas Macarthur / Military Officer

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

• Livy / Historian

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

• Alan Bradley / Writer

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

• Oscar Wilde / Writer

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

• John Trudell / Author

They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else.

• Ovid / Poet

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

• Edmund Spenser / Poet

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

• Ebenezer Elliott / Poet

Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.

• Edward Gibbon / Historian

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

• Edward Everett / Former U.S. Senator

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

• Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander

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

• John Sterling / Announcer

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

• Theodore Bikel / Actor

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

• Aristotle / Philosopher

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

• Samuel I. Prime / Writer

Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.

• Walter Smith / Soccer Player

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

• Wilfred Owen / Poet

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

• Paul Kane / Writer

It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.

• Rocco Dispirito / Chef

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

• Zane Grey / Author

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

• Letitia James

New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the conditions some construction workers in our city toil under.

• Manoj Bhargava

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

• David Berg

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

• Henry David Thoreau / Author

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

• Mahatma Gandhi / Civil Rights Leader

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

• Mas Oyama

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

• Norman Vincent Peale / Author

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

• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton / Novelist

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

• Tillie Olsen / Writer

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

• Brigham Young / Founding Figure

Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.

• Hamlin Garland / Novelist

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

• J. K. Rowling / Novelist

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.

• Arthur Helps / Writer

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

• Rosemary Radford Ruether / Scholar

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.

• Yahtzee Croshaw / Journalist

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

• Herman Melville / Novelist

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

• Bertrand Russell / Philosopher

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

• Jules Renard / Author

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

• Robert Louis Stevenson / Novelist

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

• John Newton / Writer

Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

• Calvin Coolidge / 30th U.S. President

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

• Rick Perry / Governor Of Texas

As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.

• Washington Irving / Author

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