Toil Quotes - Page 17

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

Henry David Thoreau

Shapes, Lasts, Hours

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education, Suicide, Hope

"Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.

Brendon Burchard

Adventure, Positive Thinking, Sea

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He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.

William Watson

Fall, Eye, Bridges

William Watson, “Thomas Hood”

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Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.

William Watson

Work, Tired, Long

William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”

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Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

Willa Cather

Children, Blow, Hands

Willa Cather (2010). “Vintage Cather”, p.174, Vintage

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In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our struggles and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Struggle, Fate, Wind

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.212, The Floating Press

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Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.

Mary Carolyn Davies

Dream, Dark, Sky

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That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.

Edwidge Danticat

Dream, Art, Block

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Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

William Shakespeare

Sleep, Night, Winding Up

William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.506, Wordsworth Editions

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Not that one choose to draw aside in churlish mein or vein, From common lot of what life holds of pleasure, toil or pain But that the call-s to rise and cruise alone with dreams unshared Or plan alone for some far goal, for which none else has cared Or fight alone for what you hold is worth a warrior-s strife And ask no gain or fame or aught beyond the joy of life.

Gill Robb Wilson

Dream, Pain, Fighting

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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self, Habit, Vigilance

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

Macarius of Egypt

Christian, Blessing, Acquisition

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O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sad, Thinking Of You, Feet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1864). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.224

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Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).

Maximus the Confessor

Forgiveness, Blessed, Passion

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Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign.

Cassandra Clare

Believe, Brain, Pox

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When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

Saint Augustine

Pain, Real, Thee

Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.304, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.

Leo Tolstoy

Growing Up, Struggle, Men

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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Bram Stoker

Wise, Believe, Men

Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.315, "F+W Media, Inc."

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To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Years, Next Day, Trials

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.38, Sparklesoup LLC

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Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sweet, Book, Healing

"The Essential Goethe".

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Age, Moments

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

John Stuart Mill

Men, Changed

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Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'

Charles Lamb

Men, Smoking, Drs

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Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.

R. S. Thomas

Men, Blood, Sweat

R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.85, Hachette UK

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