Winged phrases about labor. Statements of great people about work. Famous sayings about labor and modernity

Labor saves a person from three main evils - boredom, vice and need. - Voltaire

Choose a job you like and you won't have to work a single day in your life. - Confucius *


The best way to be successful is to fall in love with what you do. - Jackie Chan

Keep busy. It is the cheapest medicine on earth - and one of the most effective. - Dale Carnegie

Idleness and idleness entail corruption and ill health - on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind to something brings vigor, eternally directed to the strengthening of life.
- Hippocrates


If there is no purpose in life, then you have to work for the one who has it!
- Robert Anthony

The only joy for a person is that on which he has worked hard - that is how he is made. - Exupery


Three things make a person happy: love, interesting work and the opportunity to travel ...
- Ivan Bunin

Immersion in work is the best way to overcome illness.

Self-improvement is the hardest work, so few people do it.

A life without labor is the most miserable life. And when there is work, every life is more than half happy.
"Two Lives" - a novel by K. E. Antarova

The real hobby of our generation is whining and dumb talk about nothing. Bad relationships, academic problems, an asshole boss ... It's all bullshit. There is only one asshole - you. And you will be very surprised if you find out how much you can change just by tearing your ass off the couch.
- George Carlin

If you want to build a ship, you don't have to call people, plan, divide work, get tools. It is necessary to infect people with the desire for the endless sea. Then they themselves will build ships ...
- A. de Saint-Exupery

When you do art, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, your soul grows.
- Kurt Vonnegut

What is a man when he is busy only with sleeping and eating? Animal, no more.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 01/23/1616) - English playwright, poet and actor

It is impossible to help someone who does not want to change his life.
- Hippocrates

To justify ourselves in our own eyes, we often convince ourselves that we are unable to achieve the goal; in fact, we are not powerless, but weak-willed.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If an egg is broken by force from the outside, life ends. If an egg is broken by force from the inside, life begins. All great things always start from within.

I tell myself: I have to grow and learn further. This is the only antidote to old age.
- Kirk Douglas, American actor

"Office work kills thought movement .. relaxes potential and weakens energy force ..."

Life is growth. When we stop growing, technically or spiritually, we become no better than the dead.
- Morihei Ueshiba

If you are passionate about doing what you love, you can even miss the apocalypse.
- Max Fry

The only joy for a person is that on which he has worked hard - that is how he is made.
- Exupery

You can blame others for everything and despair, or you can get up early every day and persist in achieving success.
- Luke Daly

It is better to go to the goal at the speed of a turtle than to come up with excuses at the speed of light why you are standing still.
-Bodo Schaefer

Iron rusts, finding no use for itself, standing water rots or freezes in the cold, and the human mind, finding no use for itself, withers away.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Working for an owner or a large company is never a solution to money problems.
- Robert Kiyosaki

If you are in your place, doing what you want to do, to which your soul lies, then this occupation will never empty and tire you, but on the contrary, fill you with energy, stimulate.

If you are crazy enough to do what you love, you are doomed to live a life full of meaning.
- Herbert Kelleher


- Jackie Chan

Better to create a job, not look for it.

When I didn't have enough money, I sat down to think, and did not run to earn money. An idea is the most expensive product in the world.
- Steve Jobs

The purest water is not the one that lingers in a large standing puddle, but the one that flows over the stones, overcomes obstacles, falls down with waterfalls - it is she who ultimately becomes drinking. This is water that was purified in the process of falling, thousands and thousands of times beating against stones, water that sang and weaved white foam of hope in suffering, giving birth to a rainbow at each meeting with obstacles in its path.
- Jorge Angel Livraga

If you want to have what you never had, start doing what you never did.
- Richard Bach

Choose a job you like and you won't have to work a single day in your life.
- Confucius

Don't be afraid to do what you don't know how to do. Remember, the ark was built by an amateur - the professionals built the Titanic.
- Dave Berry

Keep busy. It is the cheapest medicine on earth - and one of the most effective.
- Dale Carnegie

The one who does not do what he is told and the one who does no more than what he is told will never make his way up.
- Andrew Carnegie, American entrepreneur, steelmaker, philanthropist, multimillionaire.

If you think you can, you can. But if you think you cannot, then you cannot. - Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, one of the most successful business women of the 20th century.

If you want to succeed, your heart must be in your business, and your business must be in your heart.
- Thomas J. Watson, former president of IBM.

Your most unsuccessful clients are your richest source of knowledge.
- Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

Whoever works all day has no time to earn money.
- John Davison Rockefeller

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people to tell us what to do to us. - Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple Corporation.

Idleness and idleness entail corruption and ill health - on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind to something brings vigor, eternally directed to the strengthening of life.
- Hippocrates

The average person is preoccupied with how to kill time, while a talented person seeks to use it.
- A. Schopenhauer

The best way to be successful is to fall in love with what you do.
- Jackie Chan

Labor saves a person from three main evils - boredom, vice and need.
- Voltaire

There is only one way to do a great job - to love it. If you haven't come to this, wait. Don't jump into action. As with everything else, your own heart will help you suggest an interesting matter.
- Steve Jobs

If you haven't found your business yet, keep looking. Do not stop. As with all matters of the heart, you will know when you find it. And like any good relationship, it gets better and better over the years. So keep looking until you find it. Don't get stuck.
- Steve Jobs

You need to find what you love. And this is as true for work as it is for relationships. Your job will fill most of your life, and the only way to be completely satisfied is to do what you think is great. And the only way to do great things is to love what you do.
- Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, don't waste it living a different life. Don't be hooked on a creed that exists on the minds of others. Don't let the looks of others drown out your own inner voice. And it is very important to have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you really want to do. Everything else is secondary. We are here to contribute to this world. Otherwise, why are we here?
- Steve Jobs

Take a step and the road will appear by itself.
- S. Jobs

The brain wears out when it is not used.
- Bernard Werber.

If a man's vocation is to be a janitor, he should sweep the streets as enthusiastically as Michelangelo painted vaults or Beethoven composed music. He must sweep the street so that all the spirits of Heaven and Earth reverently say: "Here lives a great janitor who does his job flawlessly."
- Martin Luther King

Who does not go forward; he goes back: there is no standing position.
- V. G. Belinsky

Never lose patience - this is the last key that opens the doors.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Know: if, having lived the day, you have not done a single good deed, or you have not learned anything new during the day, the day will be spent in vain."

"Laziness and self-pity, the most faithful companions in old age! With their help, only a couple of active actions will remain: a little look and a little chewing. Old age will sit in an easy chair, carefully wrap it up with a soft blanket and undoubtedly take you to the grave."

"Labor is the best medicine. Labor is the only basis of life. Labor forges unbreakable stubbornness in a person's character. The busiest people are the most durable. Labor, constant doing, creation is the best tonic medicine. Healthy joy of labor will be the source of a long, fruitful life. It is daily labor. there is an accumulation of fiery treasures ... Each work gives rise to energy, which in essence is similar to cosmic energy ... You need to love your work in order to find rest and justification in it. Love for work gives joy, as well as the power to improve its quality. You can love work only by knowing it. Love for work is the best way for the growth and accumulation of fiery energy. Work can be accompanied by both joy and inspired thought. Joyful work is several times more successful. "
- S. V. Stulginsky "Fundamentals of scientific, philosophical and religious outlook is the key to understanding a new era"

Without purpose there is no activity, without interests there is no purpose, and without activity there is no life. The source of interests, goals and activities is the substance of social life.
- V. G. Belinsky

For me to live is to work.
- I. K. Aivazovsky

A person is born not to drag out a sad existence in inaction, but to work on a great and grandiose cause.
- L. Alberti

He who has no goal finds no joy in any occupation.
- D Leopardi

The meaning of our life is continuous movement.
- Yakub Kolas

Anyone who cannot have 2/3 of the day for himself should be called a slave.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Work hard! The world will not be paradise For those who want to live as a lazy person.
- Sachs Hans

Man is made for action. Not to act and not to exist for a person is the same thing.
- Voltaire

"In order to be healthy, you need: cold, hunger and movement!
And the whole civilization strives for warmth, satiety and peace.
People do everything in order to die "...
- Porfiry Ivanov

Legs get stronger when you walk!

For the good of others, rivers flow, for the good of others trees bear fruit, for the good of others, noble people live.
- Indian wisdom

Happiness is not always about doing what you want, but about always wanting what you do.
- Lev Tolstoy

Those who have a lot of work have a short day.

The best job is a high-paying hobby.

I beg all people to become and take your place in nature, it is not occupied by anyone and is not bought, but only by their deeds and labor.
- P. Ivanov

Man is made in such a way that when something ignites his soul, everything becomes possible.
- Lafontaine

A person is valuable when his words coincide with his actions.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire is not enough, action is needed ...
- Bruce Lee

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and if we exchange these apples, then you and I have one apple each. And if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- Bernard Show

If you have a great goal before you, and your possibilities are limited, act anyway; for only through action can your possibilities increase.
- Sri Aurobindo

Trying to succeed without doing anything is like trying to reap a crop where you haven't sown anything.
- David Bligh

If there is no purpose in life, then you have to work for the one who has it!
- Robert Anthony

To be healthy, you need cold, hunger and movement! And the whole civilization strives for warmth, satiety and peace. People do everything in order to die.
- Porfiry Ivanov

Do not force your soul into something other than your profession. A profession should initially be an act of love. And not a marriage of convenience. And before it's too late, do not forget that the work of a lifetime is not a business, but life.
- Haruki Murakami

A gem cannot be polished without rubbing. Likewise, a person cannot become successful without a sufficient number of difficult attempts.
- Confucius

I would rather fail in what I like than be successful in what I hate.
- George Burns

The main troubles of the human race are from the fact that out of a thousand people, nine hundred and ninety-nine live to die, without understanding themselves, having studied their whole life not their own business.
- Boris Akunin

People who succeed in this world are not lazy and look for the circumstances they need. And if they do not find them, they create them.
- Bernard Show

Forces lie dormant deep inside a person - a power that can shake his imagination, about the possession of which he could never even dream of, such forces that can completely transform his whole life, if they are organized and harnessed to work.
- Orizon Sweet Marden

Everyone has enough strength to live a life with dignity. And all this talk about what a difficult time is now, this is a clever way to justify your inaction, laziness and various sadness. You have to work, and then, you see, and times will change.
- Lev Davidovich Landau

Do today what others do not want, tomorrow you will live in a way that others cannot.

Success is the ability to fail over and over again without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

You can never write a good book without first writing a few bad ones.
- Bernard Show

You can't give up a dream without trying to make it happen.
- Jacqueline Susan

The greatest reward for hard work is not what a person gets for it, but who he becomes in the process of this work.
- John Ruskin

Three rules for achieving success: know more than others; work harder than others; expect less than the rest.
- William Shakespeare

Idleness is the mother of boredom and many vices.
- Catherine the Great

Only in creativity is there joy - everything else is dust and vanity
- Anatoly Fedorovich Koni

Completed works are pleasant.
Homer

Done and the fool will understand.
Homer

A true treasure for people is the ability to work.
Aesop

If children were not forced to work, they would not learn to read, music, gymnastics, or that which most strengthens virtue - shame. For predominantly shame is born from these occupations.
Democritus

Gold prospectors dig a lot of land and find some [gold].
Heraclitus of Ephesus

When hunger is not supposed to work.
Hippocrates

Persons subject to daily labor endure them, even if they are weak and old, easier than people strong and young without habit.
Hippocrates

Obscurity is a blessing, as well as labor.
Antisthenes of Athens

Hard work wins everything.
Macrobius Ambrose Theodosius

If labor, then labor is so much that there was benefit and honor.
Lucilius Guy

It's worth the work.
Cicero Mark Tullius

The bodies of young men are tempered by labor.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Labor makes one insensitive to grief.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Labor creates a kind of calloused barrier against pain.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Labor dulls grief.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Nothing in life comes without a lot of work.
Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus)

The road to fame is paved with hard work.
Publius Cyrus

Great people are fed by work.
Seneca Aucius Annay (the Younger)

The vices of idleness should be overcome with labor.
Seneca Aucius Annay (the Younger)

Work as long as your strength and years permit.
Ovid

We are denied a long life; let us leave the labors that will prove that we lived!
Pliny the Elder

Excessive zeal spoils more than improves.
Pliny the Younger

There is hope in constant work.
Unknown author

Tireless labors are rewarded with great glory.
Unknown author

The consciousness of the finished work is pleasant.
Unknown author

Work itself is a pleasure.
Unknown author

Work makes worries invisible.
Unknown author

Labor is not a burden, but a blessing.
Unknown author

Works give birth (create) honor.
Unknown author

The change of labor itself reduces fatigue.
Unknown author

The plow will make the one who plows well fed.
Veda

When the paths are not the same, do not make plans together.
Confucius (Kun-tzu)

A person should do those things that, although they require heavy physical labor, calm his mind.
Xun Tzu

He who is diligent [in work] has the opportunity to live, and who is not diligent in work, he does not have the opportunity to live.
Mo-tzu (Mo Di)

Happiness cannot be asked for, misfortune cannot be avoided if he himself acted badly, worked hard.
Mo-tzu (Mo Di)

Physical labor is what serves virtue.
Xun Tzu

Labor and frugality bring prosperity.
Han Fei-tzu

All things are in work: a person cannot retell everything; the eye is not satisfied with sight, the ear is not filled with hearing.
Old Testament. Ecclesiastes

All man's labors are for his mouth, but his soul is not satisfied.
Old Testament. Ecclesiastes

Every work and every success in business produces envy between people. And this is vanity and vexation of the spirit!
Old Testament. Ecclesiastes

He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread; and he who follows in the footsteps of idle-lovers is poor-minded.

There is profit from all labor, and only damage from idle talk.
Old Testament. The parables of Solomon

The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy will be under tribute.
Old Testament. The parables of Solomon

What is gained with labor is accepted and preserved with joy, and what is obtained without difficulty, it quickly disappears.
Basil the Great

Everywhere, by cruelty and labor, man increases what is useful.
John Chrysostom

There is no work without rest; know how to do - and be able to have fun.
Rudaki

Happiness does not wind in the air - it is given by labor.
Rolls

A friend is inevitable everywhere. But the best is when he is an assistant in work.
Nizami Ganjavi

Ability, valor are nothing until we put in labor.
Slept

They say that among animals the lion is the highest and the donkey is the lowest; but the donkey, carrying carrying, is truly better than the lion, tearing people apart.
Saadi

Glory is in the hands of labor.
Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness goes to those who work hard.
Leonardo da Vinci

Work hard! The world will not be paradise For those who want to live as a lazy person.
Hans Sachs

The best cure for idleness is constant and honest work.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Labor that is pleasant to us heals grief.
William Shakespeare

There is nothing that cannot be overcome by labor.
Giordano Bruno

There is no such hard work that love does not make it not only easy, but even pleasant.
Giordano Bruno

Physical labor helps to forget about moral suffering.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who loves work does not need entertainment.
Jean de La Bruyere

As movement awakens the appetite, so labor stimulates the thirst for pleasure.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

To live is to work. Labor is the life of man.
Voltaire

Work relieves us of three great evils: boredom, vice, need.
Voltaire

Work is often the father of pleasure.
Voltaire

Labor is the father of happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

Temperance and work are two true physicians of man: work sharpens his appetite, and temperance prevents him from being abused.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Work in order to enjoy.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

An hour of work will teach you more than a day of explanation.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

To try to leave behind more knowledge and happiness than there was before, to improve and multiply the inheritance we have received - this is what we must work on.
Denis Diderot

Consciousness of the fruitfulness of labor is one of the best pleasures.
Luc de Clapier Vovenargue

If a person has learned the habit of work from an early age, work is pleasant to him. If he does not have this habit, then laziness makes work hateful.
Claude Adrian Helvetius

... Pleasure should be a reward for work ...
Claude Adrian Helvetius

The better the good, the more labor it dug in like a ditch. He who does not pass labor, and he will not come to good.
Grigory Savvich Skovoroda

... Judge not by the dress.
Who feeds on honest labor, -
I call such nobles.
Robert Berne

Unrelenting work overcomes all obstacles.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

For those who are accustomed to work, work is made easier.
Ekaterina II Alekseevna

Having overcome any kind of work, a person feels pleasure.
Ekaterina II Alekseevna

Labor is overcome by labor.
Ekaterina II Alekseevna

Labor is the father of hunger, the grandfather of digestion, the great-grandfather of health.
Moritz-Gottlieb Safir

Man's duty is to work and, to the best of his ability, to transform the earth into heaven.
Robert Browning

… There is nothing more unbearable than idleness.
Charles Darwin

Diligence is the soul of every business and the guarantee of prosperity.
Charles Dickens

Our destiny is not to try to see clearly what is distant from us and hidden in the fog, but to work on what is at our fingertips.
Thomas Carlyle

All labor is noble, and only labor is noble.
Thomas Carlyle

Labor is a healing balm, it is a source of virtue.
Johann Gottfried Herder

The higher the culture, the higher the value of labor.
Wilhelm Rocher

One of the undoubted and pure joys is rest after work.
Immanuel Kant

Young man, love work; deny yourself pleasures, not in order to give them up forever, but in order to have them in perspective all the more! Don't blunt your susceptibility to them with premature delight!
Immanuel Kant

Labor ennobles a person.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

By the degree of more or less respect for work and by the ability to evaluate work ... according to its true value - you can find out the degree of civilization of the people.
Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov

Only through work and struggle is identity and self-esteem achieved.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Even simple material labor cannot be done with love, knowing that it is being done in vain ...
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

Labor is a sacred thing, it befits everyone.
Nikolay Semenovich Leskov

When a person does not work quite seriously, that is, when he does not earn a piece of bread for himself by his own labor, then he cannot be happy.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev

Work like an ant if you want to be like a bee.
Kozma Prutkov

If you successfully choose work and put your whole soul into it, then happiness itself will find you.

A person needs free labor by itself, to develop and maintain a sense of human dignity in him.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

Only the inner, spiritual, life-giving power of labor serves as the source of human dignity, and at the same time morality and happiness.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

Man is born to work; labor constitutes his earthly happiness, labor is the best guardian of human morality, and labor must be the educator of man.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

Labor must be consistent with the forces of man. He is bad, that is, unpleasant when he exceeds them.
Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky

In everyday everyday affairs, diligence is able to do everything that a genius is capable of, and besides, there are many things that a genius cannot do.
Henry Ward Beecher

Labor does not disgrace man; unfortunately, sometimes you come across people who dishonor labor.
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Labor gives rise to wisdom and purity; laziness gives rise to ignorance and sensuality.
Henry David Thoreau

Constant labor is the law of both art and life.
Honore de Balzac

Labor in our time is a great right and a great duty.
Victor Marie Hugo

Less need for work, we better understand its dignity.
Jean Marie Guyot

One has only to get used to work, and you can no longer live without it. Everything in this world depends on labor.
Louis Pasteur

We will work, because work is the father of pleasure.
Stendhal

The ship of life lends itself to all winds and storms if it does not have labor ballast.
Stendhal

A hardworking bee can collect honey from bitter flowers.
Maxim Adamovich Bogdanovich

Every badly done work is the same lie. He is dishonorable.
Samuel Smiles

Without labor there is no pleasure, there is no labor without pleasure.
August Bebel

When labor becomes an essential condition of being, it soon turns into a matter of honor and the moral foundation of society.
Heinrich Mann

Outstanding personalities are formed not through beautiful speeches, but by their own work and its results.
Albert Einstein

He who works only for himself is like cattle filling their belly. The worthy one works for humanity.
Abai Kunanbayev

When you work, you are fulfilling a piece of the earliest dream of the earth, prepared for you at the time that dream was born. And as you work, you truly love life. And to love life through work means to get closer to the deepest secret of life.
Kahlil Gibran Gibran

Labor is love that has become visible.
Kahlil Gibran Gibran

All my life I have seen only people who love and know how to work as real heroes.
Maksim Gorky

The height of culture is always directly dependent on the love of work ...
Maksim Gorky

It is in work, and only in work, that a person is great, and the ardent his love for work, the more majestic he himself, the more productive, more beautiful his work.
Maksim Gorky

When work is pleasure, life is good! When labor is a duty, life is slavery!
Maksim Gorky

You need to love what you do, and then work - even the most coarse - rises to creativity.
Maksim Gorky

It’s not about what kind of work a person does, what matters is how he does it.
Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaisky

The hack, of course, is always unprincipled, it creates an indifferent attitude to the topic - it avoids the difficult one.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

Without clearly intensified hard work, there are no talents or geniuses.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Everything is given only to labor. Everything - to human labor, this is the slogan of history.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Work: find peace in work, you will not find it in anything else! The pleasure will fly by - it is for itself; labor leaves a trace of long joy - it is different.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Labor is the noblest healer of all ailments. There is nothing more joyful than work.
Nikolay Alexandrovich Ostrovsky

All my life I have loved and love mental work and physical work and, perhaps, even more than the second. And he felt especially satisfied when he made some good guess in the latter, that is, he joined his head with his hands.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Physical labor under certain conditions is a "muscle joy".
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Each time, starting a difficult job, never rush, give time, depending on work, to enter this difficult job, to mobilize in order, and not pointless, fussy.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Labor is conscience.
Andrey Platonovich Platonov

You can kill your spirit in drunken labor. It seems that no one has yet described this method of suicide, but every scientist who has not made a discovery is a suicide.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

The labor process, if it is free, ends in creativity.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

And with ingenious talent, only great workers can achieve absolute perfection in art. This humble ability to work is the basis of every genius.
Ilya Efimovich Repin

Boredom comes from idleness, dissatisfaction comes from everyday, sometimes monotonous work. Treating work as a duty rather than a creative process makes work a burden.
German Stepanovich Titov

Where labor turns into creativity, the fear of death naturally disappears even physiologically.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy

There is unnecessary work, fussy, impatient, irritated, disturbing others and drawing attention to itself. Such work is much worse than idleness. Real work is always quiet, uniform, imperceptible.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Labor is an undoubted condition for happiness: first, beloved and free labor; secondly, physical labor, giving appetite and sound, calming sleep.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Nothing like work ennobles a person. A person cannot maintain his human dignity without labor.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Freeing oneself from labor is a crime.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Labor is a necessary condition for a person's life, and labor gives good to a person.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Labor is not a virtue, but an inevitable condition for a virtuous life.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

If you work for the present, your work will turn out to be worthless; we have to work with only the future in mind.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

You need to put your life in such conditions that work is necessary. There can be no pure and joyful life without labor.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A person must work, work in the sweat of his brow, whoever he is, and this alone is the meaning and purpose of his life, his happiness, his delights.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Without a clearly expressed personal embodiment in work, without materialization in work of the spiritual world of the individual, there is no sense of personal honor and dignity.
Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky

Only labor transforms the universe. In labor only, for labor it is only worth living!
Ivan Yakovlevich Franko

The fear of death makes us love work, which is all life.
Jules Renard

Most of life's tasks can only be accomplished by working together.
Alfred Adler

Labor is the only title of true nobility! This is the power and joy of the human creator.
Romain Rolland

Labor, the forces of those who lived before us live in us. May future generations, in turn, be able to live thanks to our labor, thanks to the strength of our hands and our mind. Only in this case will we fulfill our purpose with dignity.
Jean Henri Fabre

You can never be as happy as in those hours when work leaves no minute free.
Jean Henri Fabre

To live right is to work. When the machine is idle, rust begins to corrode it.
Jean Henri Fabre

Labor is the best medicine, moral and aesthetic.
Anatole France

Labor is the soul of genius, the heart of talent, it is the inner fire of every talent.
Anatole France

Continuously and correctly occurring labor process constantly, daily, even hourly generates conflicts.
Gyorgy Lukach

The hardest and most painful work is the work of thought.
Wilhelm Windelband

Labor is a unifying stream in which separate aspects of our nature merge into an inseparable whole.
Georg Simmel

Labor is fatigue, heaviness, difficulty, and where these properties are not found, we do not deal with real labor.
Georg Simmel

If work is interesting and spiritual, then it becomes birth pangs.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If, starting to work, we can say: "Why?" - then our effort collapses, carrying away the entire evolution in its fall, for we are its embodiment.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We cannot be allowed to become bad workers through shyness or modesty!
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Labor presupposes effort, victory over inertia.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

To work is to decide to think differently from what you previously thought.
Paul Michel Foucault

Carelessness rejuvenates, employment colors.
Robert Walser

Only work, in fact, is real life, pleasure, inner fun, the joy of being.
Robert Walser

May 1 is Labor Day, which is celebrated in many countries. Every person's life is spent in labor. Going to work, looking after the house, raising children - all this is human labor. The topic of labor has always been and will be relevant, as evidenced by the statements of great people about labor in different centuries. Their philosophical sayings say that it is work that is the basis of human life, it brings benefits and improves the benefits.

Plunging into work, a person forgets about his problems, focusing on his work. Thus, work is the best medicine for mental wounds. In our selection there are not only philosophical statements about work, but also cool statuses that will undoubtedly cheer you up.

May Day holidays, although dedicated to work, however, these days, as a rule, are declared days off at the state level, and these days it is customary to rest, not work. Here is such a small paradox, although on the other hand, if you work all the time, then sometime you need to rest.

Labor can be mental or physical. It is not so important what a person does in life, the main thing is that the work is to his liking and be useful.

Work and labor will grind everything.

Success doesn't come immediately.

Work is often the father of pleasure. (Voltaire)

Real pleasure is the contemplation of the results of labor.

Labor in our time is a great right and a great duty. (V. Hugo)

It has been and always will be.

Labor is a healing balm, it is a source of virtue. (Herder)

Man finds himself in work.

Everyone who is worthy to be called a human must have the willingness and ability to work. (Smiles)

The desire to work is a sign of a noble person, while laziness is his enemy.

Labor makes one insensitive to grief. (Cicero)

During work, a person content his thoughts in practice, and not on problems.

A true treasure for people is the ability to work. (Aesop)

Rather not skill, but desire. There will be a desire, everything can be learned.

Labor dulls grief. (Cicero)

The best doctor is work, she heals from the most severe wounds - from the soul.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. (Franklin Benjamin)

And if you can master today what you planned for tomorrow, don't wait tomorrow ...

Work relieves us of three great evils: boredom, vice, and want. (Voltaire)

At that time, work brings joy and prosperity.

You need to love what you do, and then work - even the most coarse - rises to creativity. (Maksim Gorky)

There is nothing better when work is a hobby.

Everyone who is worthy to be called a human must have the willingness and ability to work. (Smiles)

And first you need to have the desire, and then the ability, without desire, no ability will help.

Sayings of great people

Labor creates a kind of calloused barrier against pain. (Cicero)

When a person is busy with something, he does not have time to think about mental or physical pain.

Work hard! The world will not be a paradise for those who want to live as a lazy person. (Sachs Hans)

If you want to live and enjoy the benefits, work and increase your fortune.

The main merit of labor is that it itself is both an end and a means, so that pleasure is in it, and not in its results. (Reihani Amin)

Whatever one may say, the results of labor bring no less pleasure than the labor itself.

Physical labor is what serves virtue. (Xun Tzu)

While mental work serves improvement.

A person must work, work in the sweat of his brow, whoever he is, and this alone is the meaning and purpose of his life, his happiness, his delights. (A.P. Chekhov)

Life without labor is just existence.

The labor process, if it is free, ends in creativity. (M. Prishvin)

A relaxed work process is creativity.

When work is pleasure, life is good! When labor is a duty, life is slavery! (Maksim Gorky)

To live and enjoy life, you need to do what brings pleasure.

Constant labor is the law of both art and life. (O. de Balzac)

Only even the most pleasant work should be alternated at least sometimes with rest.

There can be no pure and joyful life without labor. (A.P. Chekhov)

Life without labor is a lie, self-interest and seeking benefits from others.

Statuses

When you work like a bee, life does not seem like honey.

Life then resembles not honey, but a squeezed lemon.

Those who do not work do not make mistakes.

For some, work is just a mistake.

It is difficult to tune in to the working wave - laziness creates strong interference.

That means that a good master is not enough to change the settings ...)

Fewer people are bent from hard work than by trying to avoid work.

No matter how hard you try, you can't run away from work!

Work is sacred! And you cannot touch the holy!

Holy Priyyou need to multiply, so go work!

If only to meet a rabid workaholic, to bite once ...)

Do you think it will help ?!)

Even in the dictionary, the word "success" is located after the word "work".

It seems that Ozhegov and Dal knew something ...)

You need to work wisely, not until nightfall!

You need to work as hard as you can, not by the hour!

For a man, work is a second home, and for a woman, home is a second job.

Men also have time to rest at work. and women continue to work at home ...

If you successfully choose work and put your whole soul into it, then happiness itself will find you.

Happiness, I'm here ...)

Do you have periods in your life when you just give up and don't want to do anything? Do not rush to despair, think about what you like to do the most and what you could do useful for yourself, for your family and friends, for society, in the end. When you plunge headlong into work, believe me, not only dark thoughts will go away from you, you will be filled with vitality and a sense of accomplishment! Work hard, involve your environment in work, but do not forget that what is good is in moderation, so do not forget to rest and recuperate after working days!

Nothing in life comes without a lot of work. Quintus Horace Flaccus

If you have built castles in the air, this does not mean that your work was in vain: this is how real castles should look like. It remains only to bring a foundation under them. Henry David Thoreau

They are looking for a friend for a long time, they find it with difficulty and it is difficult to keep him. Publius Sire

It's hard to be smart and sincere at one time, especially in feeling. Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov

The time is long enough for the one who uses it; who works and thinks, expands its boundaries. Voltaire (Marie Francois Arouet)

Children make work joyful, but failures seem more upsetting because of them; children make life more pleasant and death less terrible. Francis Bacon

Two people worked fruitlessly and tried uselessly: the one who saved up wealth and did not use it, and the one who studied the sciences, but did not apply them. Saadi (Muslihiddin Abu Mohammed Abdallah ibn Mushrifaddin)

Happiness brings more joy the more you work hard before you achieve it. After all, labor is a seasoning for happiness. Xenophon

One should covet the pleasures that follow the work, and not before the work. Antisthenes

To retrain is incomparably more difficult than to teach. Therefore, Timothy, the famous flutist, demanded a double payment from those who came to him from other teachers. Mark Fabius Quintilian

A word that has thoughtlessly escaped is as difficult to hold as a thrown stone. Menander

With great difficulty we lift a stone up a mountain, and it falls down instantly - just as virtues draw us up, and vices down. Ancient India, unknown author

Think how difficult it is to change yourself, and you will understand how insignificant your opportunities are to change others. Voltaire (Marie Francois Arouet)

There is no work without rest; know how to do - and be able to have fun. Abu Abdallah Jafar Rudaki

Man is born to work; labor constitutes his earthly happiness, labor is the best guardian of human morality, and labor must be the educator of man. Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

If children were not forced to work, they would not learn to read, music, gymnastics, or that which most strengthens virtue, shame. For predominantly shame is born out of these occupations. Democritus

Being natural is a very difficult position - you can't stand it for long! Oscar Wilde

Virtue is a kind of middle between opposing passions. That is why it is difficult to be a worthy person, because in any business it is difficult to keep to the middle. Aristotle

It is difficult to say what indecision deserves more - pity or contempt, and it is not known which is more dangerous - to make a wrong decision or not make any. Jean de La Bruyere

A person who is diligent in work, firm in adversity and demanding of himself is indulgent towards people only because his reason forces him to do so. Jean de La Bruyere

It is not very easy to find a job for which you will not hear reproaches; it is very difficult to do something so that nothing is wrong. Socrates

Exercise yourself with voluntary labor, so that on occasion you will be able to endure the forced ones. Isocrates

Surprisingly: every person can easily say how many sheep he has, but not everyone can name how many friends he has - so much they are not in value. Socrates

Temperance and work are two true physicians of man: work sharpens his appetite, and temperance prevents him from being abused. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Beautiful things are worked out by teaching through labor, while bad things are produced by themselves without labor. Democritus

Those who are accustomed to carrying ordinary work, even if they are weak or old people, endure these works more easily than people who are strong and young, but unusual. Hippocrates

The better the good, the more labor it dug in like a ditch. He who does not pass labor, and he will not come to good. Grigory Savvich Skovoroda

The most difficult thing in friendship is to be on a par with someone who is below you. Mark Tullius Cicero

The leader should differ from the subordinates not in a luxurious way of life, but in hard work and the ability to foresee events. Xenophon

Recognition of poverty is not a shame, but it is shameful not to strive to get rid of it by work. Thucydides

Permanent and fertile evil must be resisted by slow and persistent labor: not to destroy it, but so that it does not overpower us. Lucius Anney Seneca (the younger)

It is difficult to say who is more stupid - whether the one who tells the whole truth to the end, or the one from whom you never hear the truth at all. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Learn first good morals, and then wisdom, for without the former it is difficult to learn the latter. Lucius Anney Seneca (the younger)

In both life and speech, there is nothing more difficult than seeing what is appropriate. Mark Tullius Cicero

When a person in this world is impatient to say something, the difficulty is not in getting him to speak, but in preventing him from repeating it more often than necessary. George Bernard Shaw

A person must do those things that, although they require heavy physical labor, calm his mind. Xun Tzu

Finding a vain person who considers himself happy enough is as difficult as finding a humble person who considers himself too unhappy. Jean de La Bruyere

Ignorance is a free state and does not require any labor from a person; therefore the ignorant number in the thousands. Jean de La Bruyere

It is difficult for a person who talks about himself for a long time to avoid vanity. David Hume

Wealth mainly depends on two things: hard work and moderation, in other words - do not waste either time or money, and use both in the best possible way. Benjamin Franklin

God and the devil have achieved impressive results through specialization and division of labor. Samuel Butler

The most difficult profession is being human. Jose Julian Marty

A good done by an enemy is just as difficult to forget as it is difficult to remember a good done by a friend. For good we pay only the enemy with good; for evil we take revenge on both the enemy and the friend. Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

: Labor is the father of happiness.

Cervantes:
The best cure for idleness is constant and honest work.
Epicharm:
The gods sell all the goods to us just for the work.
Baurzhan Toyhibekov:
Only hellish labor deserves a heavenly rest.
Adam Smith:
Each person is rich or poor, depending on the amount of labor that he can command or that he can buy.
Adam Smith:
Labor is the real measure of the exchange value of all commodities.
Jean de La Bruyère:
One who loves work does not need entertainment.
Lucilius:
If labor, then labor is such that there was benefit and honor.
Jubran:
Life is actually darkness when there is no aspiration. Any striving is blind when there is no knowledge. All knowledge is vain when there is no labor. All labor is fruitless when there is no love.
Jubran:
Labor is love that has become visible.
DI. Mendeleev:
Everything is given only to labor. Everything - to human labor, this is the slogan of history.
M.V. Lomonosov :
Unrelenting work overcomes obstacles.
Solomon:
From all labor there is profit, but from idle talk only damage.
ON. Dobrolyubov:
Only work gives the right to enjoy life.
Georges Sand:
Labor is not a punishment; it is reward and strength, glory and pleasure.
Voltaire:
Labor saves a person from the three main evils of boredom, vice and want.
Voltaire:
Labor removes boredom, vice and poverty.
Viktor Shenderovich:
What is a man from the point of view of a monkey? This is an example of what labor can bring!
Thomas Jefferson:
I am a strong believer in luck. And I noticed that the more I work, the luckier I am.
Ignatius Loyola:
If the work is really useful, it is always quiet and inconspicuous.
Abraham Lincoln :
If God created people whose purpose was only to eat and not to work, he would not give them hands, but only give mouths; and if he created another class, which would only have to work and not eat, he would not give them mouths, but only give hands.
Vissarion Belinsky:
Labor ennobles a person.
Fedor Bondarchuk :
If you have even a drop of talent, work will do the rest. Patience, self-discipline, perseverance. But there are many examples when people reached great heights through labor without talent, and there were people with talent who went into oblivion. You have to work, work.

 

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