#toil

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

#concludes #fame #life #much #pursuit

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#basic #floors #how #i #i can

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

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

— Winston Churchill

#i #nothing #offer #sweat #tears

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

— Grover Cleveland

#american #dignity #fact #honest #honor

Honor lies in honest toil. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#honor #lies #toil

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#bank #disability #etc #fitting #found

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

#cooks #fact #hard #i #like

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

— Emily Dickinson

#earned #expensive #fortune #luck #smile