Zitat des Tages über Mühsal / Toil:
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.
Mine is the horny hand of toil.
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Honor lies in honest toil.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Light is the task where many share the toil.
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.
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.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
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.
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.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.
I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
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.
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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.
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.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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.
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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.