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

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

Pick a job you love and you won't have to work a day in your life. - Confucius*


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

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

Idleness and idleness entail depravity and ill health; on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind to something brings cheerfulness, eternally directed towards the strengthening of life.
- Hippocrates


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

A man only enjoys what he has worked hard for - that's how he works. - Exupery


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

Immersion in work The best way conquer the disease.

Working on oneself is the hardest work, so few do it.

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

The real hobby of our generation is whining and goofing off about nothing. Bad relationships, school problems, an asshole boss... It's all bullshit. There is only one asshole and that is 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 need to call people, plan, divide work, get tools. It is necessary to infect people with the desire for an endless sea. Then they will build the ships themselves...
- A. de Saint-Exupery

When you make art, whether it's good or bad, your soul grows.
— Kurt Vonnegut

What is a person when he is busy only sleeping and eating? An animal, nothing more.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 01/23/1616) - English playwright, poet and actor

Those who do not want to change their lives cannot be helped.
- Hippocrates

In order 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 the egg is broken by force from outside, life ceases. If the egg is broken by force from within, life begins. All great things always start from within.

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

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

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

If you enthusiastically do what you love, you can even miss the apocalypse.
- Max Fry

A man only enjoys what he has worked hard for - that's how he works.
- Exupery

You can blame others for everything and despair, or you can get up early every day and persevere to achieve success.
- Luke Daly

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

Iron rusts without finding a use for itself, stagnant water rots or freezes in the cold, and the mind of a person, not finding a use for itself, withers.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Work for the owner or big company will never be the solution to money problems.
- Robert Kiyosaki

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

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


- Jackie Chan

It's better to create work than to look for it.

When I did not have enough money, I sat down to think, and did not run to earn money. An idea is the most valuable commodity in the world.
- Steve Jobs

The purest water is not the one that lingers in a large stagnant puddle, but the one that flows over stones, overcomes obstacles, falls down waterfalls - it is she who eventually becomes drinkable. This is water that was purified in the process of falling, thousands and thousands of times it crashed against stones, water that sang in suffering and wove white foam of hope, giving birth to a rainbow every time it encountered obstacles in its path.
- Jorge Angel Livraga

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

Pick a job you love and you won't have to work a 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

Be 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 break through to the top.
- Andrew Carnegie, American entrepreneur, major steelmaker, philanthropist, multimillionaire.

If you think you can, you can. But if you think you can't, then you can't. - 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. - Steve Jobs, Founder and CEO Executive Director Apple Corporation.

Idleness and idleness entail depravity and ill health; on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind to something brings cheerfulness, eternally directed towards the strengthening of life.
- Hippocrates

The average person is concerned about how to kill time, while the talented person seeks to use it.
- A. Schopenhauer

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

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

There is only one way to do great work - to love her. If you don't get there, wait. Don't get down to business. As with everything else, your own heart will help you to suggest an interesting business.
- Steve Jobs

If you haven't found your business yet, look for it. Do not stop. As with all things of the heart, you will know when you find it. And like any a good relationship they get better and better with age. So seek until you find. Don't stand.
- Steve Jobs

You need to find what you love. And this is as true for work as it is for relationships. Your work will fill most of your life and the only way to be completely satisfied is to do what you think is a great thing. 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 another life. Don't get hooked on a creed that exists on other people's thinking. Don't let the eyes 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 calling is to be a janitor, he must sweep the streets with the same inspiration 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 Jr.

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

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

“Know: if, having lived a day, you did not do a single good deed or did not learn anything new in a day, the day will be spent in vain.”

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

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

Without a goal there is no activity, without interests there is no goal, 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 means 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 purpose finds no joy in any occupation.
- D Leopardi

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

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

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

Man is made for action. Not to act and not to exist for a person are one and 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 as you walk!

Rivers flow for the benefit of others, trees bear fruit for the benefit of others, noble people live for the benefit of others.
- Indian wisdom

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

Whoever has a lot of work, the day is short.

The most good job It's a high paying hobby.

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

A person is arranged in such a way that when something ignites his soul, everything becomes possible.
- La Fontaine

A person is valuable when his words match 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 in front of you, and your possibilities are limited, act anyway; for only through action can your possibilities increase.
- Sri Aurobindo

Trying to succeed by doing nothing is like trying to reap a harvest where you have not sown anything.
- David Bly

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

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

Do not force the soul with a profession that is not yours. A profession should initially be an act of love. And not an arranged marriage. And before it's too late, do not forget that the work of all life is not a work, but life.
- Haruki Murakami

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

I would rather fail at what I love than succeed at what I hate.
— George Burns

The main misfortunes of the human race come from the fact that out of a thousand people, nine hundred and ninety-nine live to death, without understanding themselves, having spent their whole lives doing something other than their own.
- Boris Akunin

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

Deep within a man lie dormant powers - a power that can shake his imagination, the possession of which he could never even dream of, such forces that can completely transform his whole life, if organized and harnessed to work.
- Orizon Sweet Marden

Everyone has enough strength to live life with dignity. And all this talk about what a difficult time it is now is a clever way to justify your inaction, laziness and various dullness. It is necessary to work, and there, you see, 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 again and again without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

Three rules for success: know more than the rest; 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 there is joy - everything else is dust and vanity
- Anatoly Fedorovich Koni

Nice finished work.
Homer

Done and the fool will understand.
Homer

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

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

A lot of land is searched by gold prospectors and they find a little [gold].
Heraclitus of Ephesus

When hunger, should not work.
Hippocrates

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

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

Everything is won by hard work.
Macrobius Ambrose Theodosius

If labor, then labor is such that there is both 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, as it were, creates a kind of callused barrier against pain.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Work dulls grief.
Cicero Mark Tullius

Nothing in life comes without hard work.
Horace (Quintus Horace Flaccus)

The road to glory is paved with labor.
Publilius Sir

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

The vices of idleness must be overcome by labor.
Seneca Aucius Annaeus (the Younger)

Work as long as your strength and years allow.
Ovid

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

Excessive zeal spoils more than it improves.
Pliny the Younger

In constant labor there is hope.
Unknown author

Tireless labors are rewarded with great glory.
Unknown author

Pleasant is the consciousness of finished work.
Unknown author

Labor itself is pleasure.
Unknown author

Work makes worries invisible.
Unknown author

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

Works give birth (create) honors.
Unknown author

The very change of work reduces fatigue.
Unknown author

The one who plows, the plow will make full.
Veda

When the paths are not the same, they do not make plans together.
Confucius (Kung Tzu)

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

Whoever is diligent [in labor], he has the opportunity to live, and whoever is not diligent in labor, he does not have the opportunity to live.
Mo Tzu (Mo Di)

Happiness cannot be asked for, misfortune cannot be avoided if one has acted badly, worked unzealously.
Mo Tzu (Mo Di)

Physical labor is what serves virtue.
Xun Tzu

Prosperity comes from hard work and thrift.
Han Feizi

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

All the labors of a man are for his mouth, but his soul is not satisfied.
Old Testament. Ecclesiastes

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

He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread; and whoever follows in the footsteps of idlers is a dullard.

From any work there is a profit, but from idle talk only damage.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon

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

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

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

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

Happiness is not in the air - it is given with difficulty.
Rulaki

Some friend is inevitable everywhere. But the best is when he is an assistant in labor.
Nizami Ganjavi

Ability, prowess are nothing until we put in the work.
Slept

It is said that among animals the lion is the highest, and the donkey the lowest; but an ass that carries a load is truly better than a lion that tears people apart.
Saadi

Glory is in the hands of labor.
Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness comes to those who work hard.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

Work that is pleasant to us heals grief.
William Shakespeare

There is nothing that cannot be overcome with hard work.
Giordano Bruno

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

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

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

Just as movement excites the appetite, so work excites the thirst for pleasure.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

Work saves us from 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 labor are the two true physicians of man: labor sharpens his appetite, and temperance prevents him from abusing it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Work hard to enjoy.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

An hour of work teaches more than a day of explanations.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

The consciousness of the fruitfulness of labor is one of the best pleasures.
Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues

If a person from an early age has learned the habit of work, work is pleasant for 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

How best good, the more difficult it was dug in, like a moat. He who does not pass labor, and he will not come to good.
Grigory Savvich Skovoroda

... Judge not by the dress.
Who honestly feeds on labor, -
Such I call nobility.
Robert Berne

Vigilant work overcomes all obstacles.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

Whoever is accustomed to work, work is made easier for him.
Ekaterina II Alekseevna

Having overcome any kind of labor, 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, turn the earth into heaven.
Robert Browning

... There is nothing more unbearable than idleness.
Charles Darwin

Diligence is the soul of any business and the guarantee of well-being.
Charles Dickens

Our destiny is not to try to see clearly what is remote from us and hidden in the fog, but to work on what we have at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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 all the more in the future! Do not dull your receptivity to them by premature enjoyment!
Immanuel Kant

Work ennobles a person.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

By the degree of greater or lesser respect for labor and by the ability to evaluate labor ... according to its true value, one can find out the degree of civilization of the people.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov

Only by labor and struggle is achieved originality and self-esteem.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

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

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

When a person does not work quite seriously, that is, when he does not earn a piece of bread by his own labor, on which he eats, 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.

Free labor is necessary for a person in itself, for the development and maintenance of a sense of human dignity in him.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

Only the inner, spiritual, life-giving force of labor serves as a 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 in proportion to the strength of man. He is bad, that is, unpleasant when he exceeds them.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky

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

Labor does not dishonor a person; Unfortunately, sometimes people come across who disgrace labor.
Ulysses Simpson Grant

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

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

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

The less need for labor, we will better understand its dignity.
Jean Marie Guyot

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

Let us work, because work is the father of pleasure.
Stendhal

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

The industrious bee knows how to collect honey from bitter flowers.
Maxim Adamovich Bogdanovich

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

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

When work becomes an indispensable condition of being, it soon turns into a matter of honor and the moral basis of society.
Heinrich Mann

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

Whoever works only for himself is likened to cattle stuffing his belly. The worthy one works for mankind.
Abai Kunanbaev

As you work, you are fulfilling a part of the earth's earliest dream, 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 approach the deepest mystery of life.
Kahlil Gibran Gibran

Labor is love made 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 in direct proportion to the love of work...
Maksim Gorky

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

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

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

It is not a matter of what kind of work a person does, another thing is important: 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 a clearly enhanced industriousness, there are no talents or geniuses.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

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

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

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

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

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

Every time starting hard work, never rush, give time, looking at work, to enter this difficult work, mobilize in order, and not senseless, fussy.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Labor is conscience.
Andrey Platonovich Platonov

You can kill your spirit in hard 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 a brilliant talent, only great workers can achieve absolute perfection in art. This modest ability to work is the basis of every genius.
Ilya Efimovich Repin

Boredom comes from idleness, dissatisfaction comes from everyday, sometimes monotonous work. Attitude to work as a duty, and not as a creative process, leads to the fact that work becomes a burden.
German Stepanovich Titov

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

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

The undoubted condition of happiness is labor: firstly, beloved and free labor; secondly, physical labor, giving appetite and sound, soothing sleep.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Nothing ennobles a person like work. Without labor, a person cannot maintain his human dignity.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Freeing oneself from labor is a crime.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

There is labor necessary condition human life, and work gives good to a person.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Labor is not a virtue, but an inevitable condition of a virtuous life.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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

It is necessary to put your life in such conditions that labor is necessary. Without work there can be no pure and joyful life.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A person must work, work hard, no matter who he is, and in this alone lies the meaning and purpose of his life, his happiness, his delights.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Without a pronounced personal embodiment in labor, without materialization in labor of the spiritual world of the individual, there is no sense of personal honor and dignity.
Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky

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

The fear of death makes us love work, in which all life is.
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 a human creator.
Romain Rolland

The labor and strength of those who lived before us live in us. May, in turn, future generations be able to live thanks to our work, thanks to the strength of our hands and our minds. Only in this case we will adequately fulfill our purpose.
Jean Henri Fabre

It is never possible to be as happy as in those hours when work does not leave a single minute free.
Jean Henri Fabre

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

The continuously and correctly occurring process of labor constantly, daily, even hourly gives rise to conflicts.
Gyorgy Lukacs

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

If, starting to work, we can say: “Why?” - then our effort collapses, dragging the whole evolution in its fall, for we are its incarnation.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We must not allow ourselves to become bad workers because of timidity or modesty!
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

To work means to decide to think differently than you thought before.
Paul Michel Foucault

Carelessness is young, employment is beautiful.
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. The life of every person is spent in work. Going to work, taking care of 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 labor that is the basis of human life, it brings benefits and improves benefits.

Plunging into work, a person forgets about his problems, focusing on his business. In this way, labor activity It is the best medicine for spiritual wounds. Our selection contains not only philosophical statements about work, but also cool statuses that will undoubtedly cheer you up.

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

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

Work and labor will grind everything.

Success does not come immediately.

Work is often the father of pleasure. (Voltaire)

The real pleasure is the contemplation of the results of labor.

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

So it was and always will be.

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

Man finds himself in work.

Everyone worthy of being called a man must have a desire and the 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 keeps his thoughts in action, and not on problems.

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

Rather than skill, but desire. There will be a desire, everything can be learned.

Work dulls grief. (Cicero)

The best doctor is work, it 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 for tomorrow...

Work delivers us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and want. (Voltaire)

At that time, work gives joy and well-being.

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

There is nothing better when work is a hobby.

Everyone worthy of being called a man must have a desire and the ability to work. (Smiles)

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

Sayings of great people

Labor, as it were, creates a kind of callused 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 lazy. (Sax Hans)

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

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

Like it or not, the results of labor bring no less pleasure than the labor itself.

Physical labor is what serves virtue. (Xun Tzu)

While mental labor serves improvement.

A person must work, work hard, no matter who he is, and in this alone lies the meaning and purpose of his life, his happiness, his delights. (A.P. Chekhov)

Life without work 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 work 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 at least sometimes be alternated with rest.

Without work there can be no pure and joyful life. (A.P. Chekhov)

A life without labor is a lie, self-interest and the search for benefits from others.

Statuses

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

Life then resembles not honey, but squeezed lemon.

Mistakes are not made by those who do not work.

For some, work is a total mistake.

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

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

Bent from hard work less people than bending in an attempt to avoid work.

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

Work is sacred! And the sacred cannot be touched!

holy priu you need to multiply, so go work!

If only I could meet a mad workaholic so that he would 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 smart, and not until the night!

You need to work according to your strength, not by the hour!

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

Men and at work have time to relax. and women continue to work at home ...

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

Happiness, I'm here...)

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

Nothing in life comes without hard work. Quintus Horace Flaccus

If you have built castles in the air, this does not mean at all that your work has gone in vain: this is exactly what real castles should look like. All that was left was to lay a foundation for them. Henry David Thoreau

They look for a friend for a long time, they find it with difficulty and it is difficult to keep him. Publilius Sir

It is difficult to be smart and sincere at the same time, especially in a feeling. Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov

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

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

Two people worked fruitlessly and tried in vain: the one who accumulated 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 before you achieve it. After all, work is the seasoning for happiness. Xenophon

One should strive for the pleasures that come after work, and not before work. Antisthenes

Retraining is incomparably more difficult than teaching. Therefore, Timothy, the famous flutist, demanded double payment from those who came to him from other teachers. Marc Fabius Quintilian

A thoughtlessly escaping word is as difficult to hold on to as a thrown stone. Menander

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

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

There is no work without rest; know how to do - know how and 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 or write, or music, or gymnastics, or that which most strengthens virtue, shame. For shame is usually born from these occupations. Democritus

Being natural is a very difficult pose - you can’t stand it for a long time! Oscar Wilde

Virtue is a kind of middle ground between opposite 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 what is more dangerous - to make an erroneous decision or not to make any. Jean de La Bruyère

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

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

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

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

Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man: labor sharpens his appetite, and temperance prevents him from abusing it. Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Those who are accustomed to carry ordinary labors, even if they are weak or old people, endure these labors more easily than people who are strong and young, but unaccustomed. Hippocrates

The better the good, the more difficult it was dug in, like a moat. 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 subordinates not by a luxurious lifestyle, but by diligence and the ability to foresee events. Xenophon

Recognition of poverty is not a disgrace, but it is shameful not to strive to get rid of it with labor. Thucydides

A constant and fruitful evil must be resisted by slow and persistent work: not to destroy it, but so that it does not overcome us. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (junior)

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 manners, and then wisdom, for without the former it is difficult to learn the latter. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (junior)

As in life, so in speech, nothing is more difficult than to see what is appropriate. Mark Tullius Cicero

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

A person should do those things that, although they require hard physical labor, but 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 Bruyère

Ignorance is a state of freedom and does not require any labor from a person; therefore the ignorant are numbered in the thousands. Jean de La Bruyère

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: diligence and moderation, in other words, do not waste either time or money, and use both to the best of your ability. Benjamin Franklin

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

The hardest job is being human. Jose Julian Marty

A good done by an enemy is as difficult to forget as it is hard to remember a good done by a friend. For good we pay good only to the enemy; for evil we avenge 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 blessings to us only for labors.
Baurzhan Toyshibekov:
Only hellish labor deserves heavenly rest.
Adam Smith:
Each man is rich or poor according to the amount of labor he can command or buy.
Adam Smith:
Labor is the real measure of the exchange value of all commodities.
Jean de La Bruyère:
He who loves work does not need entertainment.
Lucilius:
If labor, then labor is such that there is both benefit and honor.
Jubran:
Life is really darkness when there is no striving. Every striving is blind when there is no knowledge. All knowledge is vain when there is no labor. All work is fruitless when there is no love.
Jubran:
Labor is love made visible.
DI. Mendeleev:
Everything is given only to work. Everything is human labor, such is the slogan of history.
M.V. Lomonosov :
Vigilant work overcomes obstacles.
Solomon:
From any work there is a profit, but from idle talk only damage.
ON THE. Dobrolyubov:
Only work gives the right to enjoy life.
George Sand:
Labor is not punishment; it is reward and power, glory and delight.
Voltaire:
Work saves a person from the three main evils of boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire:
Work eliminates boredom, vice and poverty.
Viktor Shenderovich:
What is a man, from the point of view of a monkey? This is an example of what hard work can bring!
Thomas Jefferson:
I strongly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I am.
Ignatius Loyola:
If labor 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 mouths; and if he created another class that would only have to work and not eat, he would not give them mouths, but only hands.
Vissarion Belinsky:
Work ennobles a person.
Fedor Bondarchuk :
If you have even a modicum of talent, work will do the rest. Patience, self-discipline perseverance. But there are many examples when people reached great heights with labor, having no talent, and there were people with talent who went into oblivion. You have to work, you have to work.

 

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