John Florio Quotes

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Labour is the purgatory of the erring.

I think every work is hard in different ways.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

I worked my butt off.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

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

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.