Sweat quotes
509 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat."
"I'm into all types of stuff. I might have on Pumas one day, Givenchy the next. I'd wear this John Elliott sweat suit to the club."
"I think about more than I forget, but I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat."
"Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face."
"The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding"
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"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"
"Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end."
"I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back."
"Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate."
"All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave."
"This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding."
"A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison."
"The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing."
"God reminded me how beautiful we all are to Him, after all, we were created in His own image, and He looks at me, at you, in all our sweat and dirt and brokenness, and says, "I choose you. You are beautiful."
"To be simple is the best thing in the world."
"You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes."
"i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth"
"Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen."
"In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla."
"Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war"
"I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet Thundering, shaking the concrete."
"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores."
"The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free."
"I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff."
"There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of in time, the interest becomes a loss, exertions to raise it by dent of industry cease, it comes easy and is spent freely, and many things (are) indulged in that would never be thought of if (they were) to be purchased by the sweat of the brow."
