Toil Quotes

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

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

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

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.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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

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.

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.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

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

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

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

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

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.