Toilsome Quotes

#1. Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#2. The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
The beauty and the majesty of earth,
Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
The steep and toilsome way.

William C. Bryant

#4. 9Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun - all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

Henry Cloud

#5. Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

A. C. Bradley

#6. How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.

Kathe Kollwitz

#7. True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#8. Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

John Calvin

#9. Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

Saint Augustine

#10. He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

Gilbert Parker

#11. Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

John Calvin

#12. We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

Henri Barbusse

#13. We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Pure love is capable of great deeds, and it is not broken by difficulty or adversity. As it remains strong in the midst of great difficulties, so too it perseveres in the toilsome and drab life of each day. It

Maria Faustina Kowalska

#15. There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Jean De La Bruyere

#16. I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others

Jane Austen

#18. Sometimes it felt as if the world had forgotten about us and our problems.

Saroo Brierley

#19. After my parents divorced, my father remarried and my brothers were born when I was twelve and sixteen. I was thunderstruck at these kids. The "baby-ness" of them. Their toes. I had never been around babies before.

Leigh Newman

#20. The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

Steve Lawson

#21. Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#22. The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.

Banksy

#24. What's the point of lying about anything? We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come and eat us anyway and we'll regret not doing all that stuff we wished we did.

Patrick Ness

#25. You are a mirror of the Almighty ... this is the reason you were created ... your purpose.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#26. Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

John Travolta