Toil Quotes

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

I guess I didn`t feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation '“ enlightened as it is '“ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

The highest reward for man`s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

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

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day`s toil of any human being.

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

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

The highest reward for a man`s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.