Toil Quotes - Page 3

• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

  Irving Stone

  Strength, Men, Horny

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Future, Fighting

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• Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

  John Milton

  Work, Sweat, Littles

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• Rugged strength and radiant beauty--
  These were one in Nature's plan;
  Humble toil and heavenward duty--
  These will form the perfect man.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Character, Humble, Men

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.72

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

  Henry Van Dyke

  Motivational, Blessed, Blessing

  "The works of Henry Van Dyke".

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

  Kevin DeYoung

  Effort, Surrender, Sanctification

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thinking, Justice, Soil

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.27

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• Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

  Werner Herzog

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Bitter, Masters

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.364, GENERAL PRESS

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• Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity.
  [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem;
  Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

  Horace

  Mean, Writing, Bears

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• Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

  Thomas Kyd

  Men, Remedy, Extremes

  'The Spanish Tragedy' (1592) act 3, sc. 6, l. 1

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• Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

  John Sterling

  Dream, Thinking, Enough

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• We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

  Denis Kearney

  Party, Government, Honest

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• Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

  Walter Scott

  Simple, Race, Ears

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 4, ad fin.

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• The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

  Bertrand Russell

  Honesty, Math, Want

  Bertrand Russell (2007). “Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy”, p.71, Spokesman Books

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• The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

  Seneca the Younger

  Luxury, Simplicity, Effort

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• Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Science, Thinking, Race

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.102, Rowman & Littlefield

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• On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

  Max Perutz

  Blood, Sweat, Tears

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• Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved -still warm -too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

  Wilfred Owen

  Morning, Stars, Kindness

  1918 'Futility', collected in Poems (published1920).

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• We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.

  Johannes Kepler

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Friendship, Sports

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Attitude, Writing

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil.
  Is not true leisure one with true toil?

  John Sullivan Dwight

  Sweet, Leisure, Pleasure

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• 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.

  Solomon

  Being Happy, Heart, Wine

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• The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

  Guo Xiang

  Change, Tired, Years

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