Best work & toil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.”

Work Inspire Industry Rewards Toil Thrush

“Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.”

Men Giving Dream Eye Work Sun Wall Hot Prison Bent Toil Brazen Prison Walls

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.”

Hands Work Pay Blood Dust Soil Toil

Author:Don McLean

“Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.”

Self Done Work Pure Sake Sheer Improving Toil Drudgery

Book:Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

Source: Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

“In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.”

Night Left Work Empty Mark Luck Vanity Frustration Toil Remorse Purses Perplexity

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.”

States Work Wealth Numbers Industry Toil True Wealth

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.”

Strong Work Secret Existence Illusion Filled Employment Toil Tolerable

Book:Francesca Carrara

Source: Francesca Carrara

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

May Long Work Millions Labor Tired Toil

Book:The Collected Poems of William Watson

Source: The Collected Poems of William Watson

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”

Thinking Hands Eye Heaven Work Creation Arms Labor Invisible Contemplation Visible Contemplating Idle Toil

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

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

Self Done Work Doubt Sacrifice Fine Labor Concentration Toil Max Self Sacrifice Work Effort Without Sacrifice

Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”

Life Inspirational Persons Motivational Success Peace Work Business Journey Teaching Positive Hard Work Highest Self Improvement Garden Rewards Hard Times Classroom Toil Toiling

Author:John Ruskin

“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.”

Want I Can Parent Work Evening Contentment Retirement Parenthood Retiring Leisure Toil Retired

Book:The Letters of Anthony Trollope

Source: The Letters of Anthony Trollope

“Honor lies in honest toil.”

Success Lying Work Honest Honesty Hard Work Wise Words Honor Dignity Army Aging Presidential Toil Hard Work Pays Off Dignity Of Work

Book:Addresses, State Papers and Letters

Source: Addresses, State Papers and Letters

“I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres of labor the greater part of our life's toil and moil will of a surety end, as the wise man predicted, in vanity and vexation of spirit, here is instant physical refreshment in the work the garden entails, and, in the end, our labor will be crowned with flowers.”

Men Life Needs Art Ends Spirit Artist Lines Work Greater Wise Our Lives Design Flower Prove Garden Labor Tools Painter Vanity Instant Print Spheres Toil Prove Myself Vexation Refreshments

Author:J. D. Sedding

“For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.”

Way Humans Whole Force Work Rights Produce Cost Historical Heavy Load Entitled Toil Human History Subsistence

Book:The Thomas Sowell Reader

Source: The Thomas Sowell Reader

“No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.”

Men World Hands Dies Waiting Born Work He Man Arms Tools Tasks Blessed Busy Occasions Toil Horny Errands

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

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

Littles Work Dare Sweat Toil Brows

Author:John Milton

“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”

States Moments House Process Work Labor Naked Destroyed Toil Consumed Housework

Author:Mary McCarthy

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