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

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Henry David Thoreau

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.
Yahya Jammeh

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.
Anthony Trollope

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
Theodore Bikel

Honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

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.
Steven Soderbergh

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

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

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
William H. Wharton

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.
Rocco DiSpirito

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.
Homer

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

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
Charles Churchill

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

Mine is the horny hand of toil.
John Singer Sargent

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

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.
Victor Hugo

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
Walter Smith