34 Toil Quotes for You to Enjoy

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. Henry David Thoreau

Nature Anxiety Stated Infinite Repose Leisure Toil Moments

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson

Smile Luck Earned Expensive Toil Fortune Chance

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

Reward Become Highest Person Get Toil

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need - not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment. John Muir

Life Good Water Enjoy Life Independence Tea Enjoy Ought Easily Kind Tempered Delightful Particular Excursion Particular Kind Also Without Proved Trained Brave Any May Diet Just Bread Much Flesh Toil Full Ignored Nourishment Many Need

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

Work Doubt Fine Concentration Without Self-Sacrifice Done Toil

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Work Man Intelligence Mind Action Saved Speed Machine Relieved Find About Abruptly Part Perfecting Bound Devices Himself Idleness Material His Hands Anxieties Cannot Which Creating Toil Help Large Large Part Compelled

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall. Saint Basil

Art God Time Gift Paradise Fall Before Creation Living Relief Would Immune Case Delights Also Were Labor Disease Just Require Toil Farmer Medical Need

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

God You People Comedy Think Damn Damn Thing Other Earth Solve About Above Seems Involved Because Ceases Just Unhappiness Toil Useless Agony Thing Funniest

Honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland

Work Honor Lies Toil Honest

If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil. Isabella Bird

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. James Buchan

Life Great People World Every Corner Gave Earth Hundreds Ease Plenty Cities More Allowing Freed Feed Refined Began Which Fuel Centuries Themselves Toil Use Population Petroleum Millions Millions Of People

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths. John Wesley Powell

You Month See Through Lifted Were Curtain Cannot Grand Which Grand Canyon Canyon Might View Toil Spectacle

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond. Livy

Nature Natural Dissimilar Pleasure Nevertheless Certain Toil United Bond

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. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Science Yourself Other Strive Some About Give Entirely Remarkable Clear Talent Devote Make Up Branch Get Toil Notions Shun

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity. Manoj Bhargava

People Say People Say Obscurity Like Known Want Toil Toiling

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. Mary McCarthy

Life Naked State Completed Destroyed Finishes Consumed Never Most House Labor Begun Process Again Toil Moment Keeping

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons. Miguel Nicolelis

Nature Human Nature Universe Symphonies Relentless Emerge Neurons Source Same Human Essentially Interconnected Dynamic Einstein Mozart Produced View Toil Large Paintings Expressions Ever

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. Mortimer Adler

Work Living Earn Pleasure Only Gives Does Leisure Toil

I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan! Nancy Lublin

Love Change Celebrate Honey Complaint Construct Proposing Thy Executing Without Hive Plan Produce Toil Team Who Play

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