Top 513 Toil Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

Success is the reward for toil.

Toil, and be strong; by toil the flaccid nerves Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone: The greener juices are by toil subdued, Mellow'd, and subtilis'd; the vapid old Expell'd, and all the rancor of the blood.

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

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

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

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

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

From life, from the apple cut by the flaming knife, what grain will be saved? My son, believe me, nothing remains, Only adult toil, the furrow of fate in the palm. Only toil, Nothing more.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

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

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

The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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

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

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

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

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

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.

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

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.

Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

Nothing is achieved without toil.

Success, remember is the reward of toil.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

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

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

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

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

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

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

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

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.

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

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

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

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

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

I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.

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

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

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

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

Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.

You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging in backbreaking toil are people who are doing it for sport. To find people whose day's toil has not been lightened by mechanical invention, you must go to the non-capitalist world.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

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

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