Toil Quotes

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

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

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.

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