Quotes about toiling (15 Quotes)






    Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, Laboring, toiling, Entering into burning fire, Made to drink from a boiling spring.


    It's not much different than high school. You're not one of the cool seniors yet - as a sophomore you're sort of toiling out there with everyone else, waiting for the gains that come with seniority. In three years, most members of Congress are not going to have a lengthy track record of success.


    Just as in learning to swim or in learning a language, often toiling on with no apparent result, there comes a day when suddenly we realize we can do it,how we know we know not so it is in spiritual matters.


    Delaying and straying and playing and spraying, Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing, Recoiling, turmoiling and toiling and boiling, And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming, And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping, And curling and whirling and purling and twirling, And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping, And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing And so never ending, but always descending, Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending, All at once and all oer, with a mighty uproar, And this way the water comes down at Lodore.

    If you go over desert and mountain, Far into the country of Sorrow, To-day and to-night and to-morrow, And maybe for months and for years You shall come with a heart that is bursting For trouble and toiling and thirsting, You shall certainly come to the fountain At length, -- to the Fountain of Tears.

    When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.



    Is anybody happier because you passed his way Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today The day is almost over, and its toiling time is through. Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that's slipping fast, That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said Does the man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead Did you waste the day, or lose it Was it well or sorely spent Did you leave a trail of kindness, or a scar of discontent As you close your eyes in slumber, do You that that GOD will say, 'You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today'



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