Quotes About Toil

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.

It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

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

God's favor floats as it were over all this and finds joy in turning all those miseries to the greater profit of those who love Him. From toil He makes patience spring forth.

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

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

From reveries so airy, from the toilOf dropping buckets into empty wells,And growing old in drawing nothing up.

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings, Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.

Some emphasized the virtues of freedom they found in Native American societies, including sexual freedom, but also freedom from the expectation of constant toil in pursuit of land and wealth.

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.

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

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

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

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

Honor lies in honest toil.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.

The fifth race is that which is now upon the earth: the iron race. They live in evil times and their nature too has much of evil, so that they never have rest from toil and sorrow. As the generations pass, they grow worse; sons are always inferior to their fathers. A time will come when they have grown so wicket that they will worship power, might will be right to them, and reverence for the good will cease to be.

We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from the drag of continued indebtedness to others, was all we coveted.

Deare knight, as deare, as euer knight was deare, That all these sorrowes suffer for my sake, High heuen behold the tedious toyle, ye for me take . . .