“The gods have placed sweat as the price of all things.”

“Assurance is a jewel of that worth, a pearl of that price, that he who will have it must work, and sweat, and weep, and wait to obtain it.”

Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan

“Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“Trusting in God is a price to every dear thing and a ladder to every high thing.”

Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

“How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering, and to buy at world market prices the machinery produced in today's big automated factories?”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

“What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order?”
Quis enim cohercente in ordinem cuncta deo locus esse ullus temeritati reliquus potest?

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480) philosopher of the early 6th century

“375. All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“I actually share one thing with Whitney Houston, which is, I also have sweating issues.”

Kathy Griffin (1960) American actress and comedian