Quotes About Toil

Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.

Humanity longs to free itself from poverty, from toil, from war—from everything which few escape without degrading themselves.

For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.

There's a kind of magic that must be learned with toil and difficulty, line by line, spell by spell, the magic of the Book of Necromancy - and then there's another kind that springs from the depths of the heart, from caring for someone and loving him. It's hard to understand, I know, but you had better trust that magic, Krabat.

He remembered too that beneath the brash and comic exterior he had recognised the intrepid bravery of women who lived out lives of hardship and ceaseless toil to render their simple duties to their own, leavened with no more than the sprinkling of the salt of minor grumbling, and acid commentary upon the scoundrels and scallywags who ran things.

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.

A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

For what does a man get for all the toil and striving with which he labors under the sun?

What does the worker gain from his toil?

Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.

This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.

in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

nor did we eat anyoneís food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.