Toil Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

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

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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

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

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

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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