As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.
I will toil under sun for what I want.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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!
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
The price of winning is dedication and the price of dedication is concentration. To get any of the two you have to accept to toil for both.
Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
