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Tag Name "Toil" (295)

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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Toil is no source of shame idleness is shame.
Hesiod
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Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Livy
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Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.
William Cowper
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Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
Alexander the Great
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Toil is the true knight's pastime.
Charles Kingsley
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Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
Friedrich Schiller
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Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
Euripides
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Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.
Thomas Wolfe
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Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Livy
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
Colin Powell
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In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.
Ameen Rihani
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
Dallas Willard
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Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.
Andrew Jackson Downing
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Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
Dean Koontz
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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.
Anthony Trollope
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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
Arthur Helps
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Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
A. E. Housman
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
Barry Hannah
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
Ben Hecht
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Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
Aeschylus
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin
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