Quotes about contribution to the common cause. Quotes and phrases about work and creativity


  • "Sometime later" - most dangerous disease, which sooner or later will bury your dreams.
  • It’s a disaster if a shoemaker starts baking pies, and a pie maker starts making boots. Krylov I. A.
  • The greatest sensual pleasure, which does not contain any admixture or aversion, is, in healthy condition, rest after work. Kant I.
  • Any job is difficult until you love it, but then it excites you and becomes easier. Gorky M.
  • Choose a profession you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius
  • Where man has shed the sweat of zeal, man will reap the fruits of immortality. Babur 3.
  • Genius may be just a fleeting opportunity. Only work and will can give it life and turn it into glory. Camus A.
  • Action without effort is just getting your hands dirty.
  • Thinking is the hardest work and that’s why few people take it on. Henry Ford
  • To live means to work. Labor is human life. Voltaire
  • Either don't take it on or finish it. Ovid
  • And after a bad harvest, you need to sow. Seneca
  • When a person has a lot of free time, he will achieve little. Xunzi.
  • Anyone who wants to eat a nut must break the shell. Plautus
  • Those who want to work look for means, those who don’t want to look for reasons. S. Korolev
  • A busy person is rarely visited by idle people - flies don't fly to a boiling pot. Franklin B.
  • The best job is a highly paid hobby.
  • The world is made up of slackers who want to have money without working, and idiots who are willing to work without getting rich. Bernard Show
  • Find a goal, resources will be found. Mahatma Gandhi
  • A real job is a job you hate. Bill Watterson
  • The beginning is half of everything. Lucian
  • Don't complain to others about your life - change it for the better.
  • No invention can become perfect immediately. Cicero
  • Neither ingenuity, nor strength, nor wealth will help someone who does not have diligence. Such a person is like a boatman who has everything in his boat except the oars.
  • A rolling stone gathers no moss
  • Trying is not torture. Beria
  • Try to get what you love, otherwise you will have to love what you got. George Bernard Shaw
  • Practice without theory is more valuable than theory without practice. Quintilian
  • If there are Paths, they do not stagnate. Lao Tzu
  • The slaves were given just enough food and clothing to enable them to continue working. Nothing significant has changed in the principles of salary formation since then.
  • Work is the most important thing in life. From all troubles, from all troubles, you can find one deliverance - in work. Hemingway E.
  • Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, need. Voltaire
  • The work we do willingly heals pain. Shakespeare W.
  • The decisive role in the work is not always played by the material, but always by the artist. Gorky M.
  • The hardest part of the job is deciding to start it. Gabriel Laub
  • The dog barks, the caravan moves on.
  • The average person is concerned with how to kill time, but the talented person strives to use it. Schopenhauer A.
  • Try to work with those who are stronger than you. These are the people who will help you grow.
  • You will never complete your journey if you stop to throw a stone at every yapping dog.
  • Don't feel like going to work in the morning? Open Forbes magazine and find your last name there. Didn’t find it? Then get to work!
  • The whole is mastered in parts. Seneca
  • 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 delight. Chekhov A.P.
  • A person who works with his hands is a worker; a person who works with his hands and head is a craftsman; but a person who works with his hands, his head, and his heart is a master of his craft. Louis Naiser
  • What goes around comes around. Cicero

Tags for quotes about work: Employment, Work.

Things don’t follow us; people stick to them themselves and consider being busy a sign of happiness.
Seneca

The most short life- for busy people.
Seneca

So much time is spent on urgent matters that there is no time left for important ones.
Unknown author

The easier a thing is to do, the more difficult it is to redo it.
Principle This

A task entrusted to many is entrusted to no one.
Isaac Walton

Don’t take on too many things: if you have too many things to do, you will not be left without guilt.
Old Testament, Jesus son of Sirach, 11:10

HOFSTADTER'S LAW: Things always take longer than you expected, even with Hofstadter's Law.
Douglas R. Hofstadter

WELLINGTON RULE: All tasks of this day must be done on this day.
Attributed to the Duke of Wellington

First priority - first of all, but not necessarily in this sequence.
McNulty Rule

If you can't explain in layman's terms what you're doing, you're probably doing something wrong.
Alfred Kahn

If you don't know what you're doing, do it carefully.
Finagle's 8th rule

I can't do more than one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things at once.
Ashley Brilliant

No one is so busy that he can’t tell everyone how busy he is.
Robert Lembke

Most trusted friend– this is my favorite thing.
V. Zubkov

As soon as you imagine that you are unable to do a certain task, from that moment on it becomes impossible for you to carry it out.
B. Spinoza

Once a matter is decided by violence, the violence cannot stop... When a matter is decided by violence, victory is always not for the best people, and behind the more selfish, cunning, unscrupulous and cruel.
L. Tolstoy

People see more in someone else's business than in their own.
Seneca

In any business - both in craft and in trade - you can get rich by pretending to be an honest person.
J. Labruyère

In every doubtful matter, the only way not to be mistaken is to assume the worst possible outcome.
Louis IV

In a collective endeavor, it is difficult to be not only the first (leader), but also the last. Nobody supports him, he is noticed only when it is necessary to blame someone for failures.
V. Zubkov

Two kinds of people are incapable of doing anything. A flighty person and a fearful person - one acts before thinking, the other thinks before acting.
author unknown

Business is other people's money.
A. Dumas (son)

All human affairs are not serious, but they must be taken seriously.
A. Murdoch

Small things can create big problems.
V. Zubkov

Often, in order to understand why things are going poorly today, you need to look back and remember what happened yesterday.
V. Zubkov

There is nothing more pernicious than the influence of private interests on public affairs.
J. J. Rousseau

Sometimes it seems that the affairs of gods and people are in the hands of someone else.
E. Lec

In all matters, the “how” is important: friendliness, like a sharper, plays for sure; courtesy embellishes life, successfully playing the role of friendship.
B. Gracian

He who attaches importance to empty deeds is important matters will turn out to be an empty person.
Cato the Elder

How many things were considered impossible until they were accomplished.
Pliny the Elder

The outcome of big cases often depends on little things.
Livy

Once you give your word that you won’t do something, you will certainly want to do it.
Mark Twain

If something is worth doing, it is only what is considered impossible.
O. Wilde

When people get the opportunity to do what they want, they tend to imitate each other.
E. Hoffer

There is no greater suffering than doing nothing.
A. Herzen

One of the most amazing misconceptions is the misconception that human happiness lies in doing nothing.
L. Tolstoy

It's terribly hard work to do nothing.
O. Wilde

If you want to do something, be able to limit yourself.
I. Goethe

It doesn't take much effort to do anything; To decide what exactly needs to be done, you need truly enormous strength.
K. Hubbard

Each person can do much Furthermore what he thinks about it.
M. Prishvin

To be surprised, one minute is enough; to do an amazing thing, it takes many years.
K. Helvetius

Trying to do everything at once means doing nothing.
G. Lichtenberg

If you want to have little time, don't do anything.
A. Chekhov

There are people whose entire merit is that they do nothing.
V. Klyuchevsky

He who does nothing himself loves to teach others.
Mongolian proverb

People who always have no time usually do nothing.
G. Lichtenberg

He who does nothing always has many helpers.
L. Tolstoy

I learned early on... the sad, hopeless truth that no matter what I do, there will always be someone nearby who will be much more successful at it than me.
D. Heller

Human activity aimed at achieving only the good of the individual is a complete negation of human life.
L. Tolstoy

There is no more heartfelt advice on how to wish aging people active activities that last until the final moment. A person's only opportunity to shame death is not to wait idly.
D. Iyesh

In this article, I decided to place statements about the work of life (favorite business) of both great people (those who left a mark on the history and culture of mankind) and those who managed to amass a decent fortune and become a very rich person.

GREAT PEOPLE

Find a job you like, then you will never have to work a single day in your life.

Confucius

In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should mind their own business, and in this wisdom lies the highest justice of life.

Leonardo da Vinci

To live means to work. Labor is human life.

Voltaire

A person’s exceptional happiness is to be engaged in his constant favorite activity.

(V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko– playwright and theater director, one of the founders of the Moscow Art Theater)

Each person has a certain type of activity that makes him useful to society and at the same time brings him happiness.

(Maurice Barres- famous French writer)

For twenty whole years a person does something, for example, reads Roman law, and on the twenty-first it suddenly turns out that Roman law has nothing to do with it, that he doesn’t even understand it and doesn’t like it, but in fact he is a subtle gardener and burns with love to the flowers. This happens, presumably, from the imperfection of our social system, in which very often people find their place only at the end of their lives.

(Michael Bulgakov- famous Russian writer)

Your purpose is hidden in what you love to do more than anything else.

(Jonathan Zakarinfamous writer and philosopher)

One thing, constantly and strictly performed, organizes everything else in life, everything revolves around it.

(Eugene Delacroix- French painter and graphic artist, leader of the romantic movement in European painting)

The main troubles 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 entire lives busy with something other than their own business.

(Boris Akunin[real name Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili] - famous Russian writer, Japanese scholar, literary critic, translator)

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him not seek any other bliss. He has a business and a purpose in life.

(Thomas Carlyle- British writer, essayist, historian and philosopher. Also known as one of the brilliant stylists of the Victorian era)

Our best deeds are those that are done out of good will and in accordance with natural inclinations.

(Charles Montesquieu- French writer, jurist and philosopher. Author (inventor) of the doctrine of separation of powers)

Every person is born for some kind of work. Everyone who walks the earth has responsibilities in life.

(Ernest Hemingway- famous American writer, journalist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.)

Finding your way, finding out your place - this is everything for a person, this means for him to become himself.

(Vissarion Belinsky- famous Russian literary critic and publicist)

Just do what you want to do and don't pay any attention to anything else. In my career, I've never spent five minutes doing anything I didn't want to do.

(Lee Smolin- American theoretical physicist, known for pioneering work in string theory, loop quantum gravity, and in the field of cosmology and theory elementary particles. In the list of the 100 most outstanding thinkers in the world (Foreign Policy magazine) ranks 21st (2008)

RICH PEOPLE

“Doing what you love brings the greatest satisfaction in life. Only by finding something that occupies and captivates you every minute, can you become happy, become someone, and not be a zero without a stick.”

(Richard Branson- British entrepreneur, founder of the Virgin Group corporation. One of the richest people in the UK with a fortune estimated at US$4.6 billion as of March 2013.)

“You have to find what you love. And finding your favorite job is just as necessary as finding your loved one. Work will take up a very large part of your life, and the only way To get real satisfaction from work is to do it perfectly and be aware of it. And the only way to do your job perfectly is to love it. If you haven't found your passion yet, keep looking. Don't stop searching until you find it. As with everything else your heart is set on, you'll immediately know you've found what you're looking for. And like any great relationship, your passion for your work will only increase over time. So, keep searching and don’t rest until you find it.”

(Steve Jobs- American entrepreneur, co-founder and chairman of the board of directors Apple Corporation. One of the founders and CEO of the Pixar film studio. Forbes magazine estimated Steve Jobs' net worth at $7 billion in 2011, placing him as the 39th richest American.)

“Do what you like. Learn. Teach. Develop yourself. Change yourself from within. Golden Rule says: do what gives you true pleasure, and then you will become much happier.”

(Pavel Durov- Russian entrepreneur, one of the founders social network“VKontakte”, ruble billionaire (In 2011, Durov, with a fortune of 7.9 billion rubles, occupied 350th place in the ranking of Russian billionaires)

“You need to listen to yourself and do what you are inclined to do. Because there are 7 billion people in the world, and everyone is fighting for their own piece of bread. If you don't do what you have a predisposition for, you will still lose. You don’t have to be an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a football player, you don’t have to be a musician - you have to be what you are stronger at than others. And finding something in which you can be better than others is a rare success.”

(Sergey Galitsky- Russian entrepreneur, co-owner of the large retail chain Magnit. In 2012, Galitsky took 216th place in the Forbes list of billionaires with a fortune of 4.9 billion US dollars)

“At the age of 17, I tried to understand what I was actually capable of. I took a piece of paper, on the left I wrote what I could do, on the right - what I couldn’t do. I realized that I can write, fantasize and draw. That’s when I thought: why don’t I become a film director? A friend of mine had an acquaintance whose brother worked as a third assistant director, and this sealed my fate. I came to the film studio, and I simply fell in love with everything I saw there and said to myself: this is mine! The next day I warned my mother that I was leaving school, leaving my family, and would make films.”

(Luc Besson- French director, screenwriter and producer. Creator of the film corporation “EuropaCorp”, the so-called “European Hollywood”. He has a fortune of 103 million euros, owns castles in Normandy and the Cote d'Azur)

“At that moment, I decided to be honest with myself and leave, no matter how much money was keeping me at Microsoft. The next day I arrived at the office and wrote Farewell letter employees of the company and walked out the door. I didn't know exactly what I was going to do, but I knew what I definitely wouldn't do. I won't sit and wait and let my life and the world pass me by. People thought I was crazy for turning down this pile of money. Yes, it was scary to make such a decision, but only to a certain extent. I didn't realize at the time that this was the turning point of my entire life. I decided to stop chasing profit and started chasing passion. I was ready to open the next chapter of my life..."

(Tony Hsieh- American Internet entrepreneur, created the banner exchange network LinkExchange, which was acquired in 1998 by Microsoft for $265 million, promoted the online store of clothing, shoes and accessories Zappos.com from zero sales to a turnover of a billion dollars (in 2009 Zappos was acquired by Amazon for $1.2 billion)

“He who spends his time on activities that bring joy and satisfaction, who chooses a truly interesting job, who decides with whom to communicate, and helps his neighbor, wakes up every morning and falls asleep every evening prosperous person, AND IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY HE HAS IN HIS BANK ACCOUNT!”

“The seventh component of success is a sense of self-realization. It involves the feeling that you are becoming what you are capable of becoming. It is knowing for certain that you are moving towards realizing your full potential as a human being. Psychologist Abraham Maslow called this “self-actualization.” He argues that this is a fundamental characteristic of the healthiest, happiest and most successful members of our society."

(Brian Tracy– renowned writer and business coach. Brian Tracy's book "Achieving Your Maximum" was included in the list of 50 classic books on motivation and leadership. Tracy was born into a poor family, was a laborer, then went into sales and in 2 years went from a simple salesman to the vice president of the company)

The best (that I know) way to find your life’s work (favorite business) is to recognize and combine your talents, abilities and life purpose (individual mission). This is exactly what we are doing within the program.

Don't wait for change - create it!

Quotes about business

If something is truly worth doing, it is worth doing it poorly. Gilbert Chesterton

It is one thing to have time, another thing to hurry: he who does one thing on time is in time, he who grabs onto a lot and does not finish anything is in a hurry. Marcus Porcius Cato (the elder)

In serious matters, one should be concerned not so much about creating favorable opportunities as about not missing them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When you want to consult with someone about your business, pay attention first of all to how he arranges his own affairs. Isocrates

He who does no more than what he is paid for will never get more than what he gets. Elbert Hubbard

Anyone who, when undertaking a task, is in a hurry to achieve a result, will do nothing. He who carefully finishes his work as he began will not fail. Lao Tzu (Li Er)

Idleness and idleness entail depravity and ill health - on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind towards something brings with it vigor, eternally aimed at strengthening life. Hippocrates

It doesn't take much effort to do anything; but deciding what exactly needs to be done is what requires a huge expenditure of effort. Frank Hubbard

If you wrote about all the good things you should have done and left out all the bad things you did, it's a memoir. Will Rogers

great person he takes on great things because he realizes their greatness, a fool - because he does not understand how difficult they are. Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues

Do not take on any business - this is the first sign of wisdom. Having taken up a task, bring it to the end - this is the second sign of wisdom. Ancient India, unknown author

The art of persuading people is much higher than all arts, since it makes everyone its slaves of their own free will, and not by force. Gorgias

Everyone knows from childhood that such and such is impossible. But there is always an ignoramus who does not know this. It is he who makes the discovery. Albert Einstein

Things don’t follow us—people stick to them themselves and consider being busy a sign of happiness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (younger)

A woman never sees what a man does for her, but she sees very well what he does not do for her. Georges Courtelin

The point of medical art is not to make every person healthy, but to get as close as possible to this goal, because it is quite possible to treat well those people who can no longer recover. Aristotle

Irony has a nobler character than buffoonery, because in the first case a person resorts to a joke for his own sake, and the jester does it for the sake of others. Aristotle

There are no situations and no matters so insignificant in which wisdom cannot be manifested. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

If you look closely, it turns out that the largest part The lives of many are wasted on bad deeds, a considerable part is wasted on idleness, and the whole life as a whole is not spent on what is needed. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (younger)

Experience means absolutely nothing. You can do the same thing for thirty-five years, and do it poorly. Kurt Tucholsky

The business of government is to make all government superfluous, just as smart parents teach their children to do without them. Elbert Hubbard

To wholeheartedly praise good deeds is to take part in them to some extent. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every day or every other day, force yourself to do something that you do not like to do, so that the hour of cruel necessity, when it comes, does not take you by surprise. William James

One machine can do the work of five ordinary people; no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard

There are people who, because they have nothing to do seriously, throw themselves into public affairs, turning them into a kind of pastime. Plutarch

Mysticism leads to inaction; trust in heavenly powers prevents us from putting earthly affairs in order. Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev

Those who surround their affairs with an impenetrable veil of secrecy are equally weak-hearted and those who blurt out everything about them. Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues

Alcohol helps parliament decide matters at eleven o'clock in the evening that no one in their right mind could resolve at eleven in the morning. George Bernard Shaw

A man of successful completion. Whoever enters the palace of Fortune through the gates of joy leaves through the gates of sorrow - and vice versa. Therefore, think about the end of the matter, worry about leaving happily, and not about entering gracefully. Baltasar Gracian y Morales

If you put evil at the basis of all your affairs, you will cut your root and not reap the fruit. Saadi

You can hesitate for twenty years before you take a step, but you can’t back down once you’ve taken it. Alfred de Musset

The greatest of all immorality is to take on a task that you do not know how to do. Napoleon I (Bonaparte)

There is no business that is more difficult to organize, more dangerous to conduct, and more doubtful of success than replacing old orders with new ones. Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a single day in your life. - Confucius *


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

Keep busy. Exactly this cheap 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 towards something brings with it vigor, eternally aimed at strengthening life.
- Hippocrates


If you don’t have your own goal in life, then you have to work for someone who has it!
- Robert Anthony

A person’s joy is only what he has worked hard on - that’s how he is made. - Exupery


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

Immersion in work is the most The best way defeat the disease.

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

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

The real hobby of our generation is whining and stupid chatter about nothing. Unsuccessful relationships, problems with studies, boss is an asshole... It's all complete 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 getting your ass off the couch.
- George Carlin

If you want to build a ship, you don’t need to call people, plan, divide the work, get tools. We need to infect people with the desire for the endless sea. Then they will build the ships themselves...
- A. de Saint-Exupéry

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

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

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

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

If the egg is broken by an external force, life ends. If an egg is broken by force from within, life begins. Everything great always starts from within.

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

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

Life is growth. Having stopped growing, in a technical or spiritual sense, we become no better than the dead.
- Morihei Ueshiba

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

A person’s joy is only what he has worked hard on - that’s how he is made.
- Exupery

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

It’s better to move toward your goal at a snail’s pace than to come up with excuses at the speed of light for why you’re standing still.
-Bodo Schaefer

Iron rusts without finding a use, stagnant water rots or freezes in the cold, and the human mind, without finding a use, withers away.
- Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

If you're crazy enough to do something you love, you're destined to live a meaningful life.
- Herbert Kelleher


- Jackie Chan

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

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

The most pure water- not the one that lingers in a large stagnant puddle, but the one that flows over rocks, overcomes obstacles, and falls over waterfalls - it is the one that ultimately becomes drinkable. This is water that was purified in the process of falling, that broke against stones thousands and thousands of times, water that sang and weaved in suffering. white foam hope, giving birth to a rainbow at every encounter with obstacles along the way.
- Jorge Angel Livraga

If you want to have something you've never had, start doing something you've never done.
- Richard Bach

Choose a job you love, and you will never 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; professionals built the Titanic.
- Dave Berry

Keep busy. This 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 it to the top.
- Andrew Carnegie, American entrepreneur, major steel industrialist, 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 businesswomen 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 ex-president IBM.

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

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

It makes no 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 of Apple Corporation.

Idleness and idleness entail depravity and ill health - on the contrary, the aspiration of the mind towards something brings with it vigor, eternally aimed at strengthening life.
- Hippocrates

The average person is concerned with how to kill time, but the talented person strives to use it.
- A. Schopenhauer

The best path 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 it. If you haven't come to this, wait. Don't rush into action. As with everything else, your own heart will help you suggest something interesting.
- Steve Jobs

If you haven't found your business yet, look for it. Do not stop. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know it when you find it. And like any a good relationship, they get better and better over the years. So search until you find it. Don't stop.
- 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 great work. 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 caught up in a creed that exists on other people's thinking. Don't let the views 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 make a contribution 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 person's vocation is to be a street sweeper, 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 will reverently say: “Here lives a great sweeper 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 doors.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Know: if, after living a day, you have not done a single good deed or have not learned anything new during the day, the day has been lived in vain.”

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

"There is work best medicine. Labor is the only basis of life. Labor forges unbreakable perseverance in a person’s character. The busiest people have the longest life span. Labor, constant doing, creation is the best tonic medicine. A healthy joy of work will be the source of a long, fruitful life. Exactly daily work there is an accumulation of fiery treasure. ...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 strength to improve its quality. You can love work only by knowing it. Love of work is the best way to grow and accumulate fiery energy. Work can be accompanied by joy and inspired thought. Joyful work is several times more successful."
- S. V. Stulginsky “The fundamentals of the scientific, philosophical and religious worldview are 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, living means working.
- 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 does not have a goal finds no joy in any activity.
- D Leopardi

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

Anyone who cannot have 2/3 of a 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 as lazy people.
- Sachs Hans

Man is created for action. Not acting and not existing are the same thing for a person.
- 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

Your 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 does not lie in always doing what you want, but in always wanting what you do.
- Lev Tolstoy

He who has a lot of work has a short day.

The most good job- This is a highly paid hobby.

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

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

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

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

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and if we exchange these apples, then you and I each have one apple left. 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, but your capabilities are limited, act anyway; for only through action can your capabilities increase.
- Sri Aurobindo

Trying to succeed without doing anything is the same as trying to reap a harvest where you have not sown anything.
- David Bly

If you don’t have your own goal 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 in order to die.
- Porfiry Ivanov

Don't rape your soul with 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, don’t forget that the work of your whole life is not a business, but a life.
- Haruki Murakami

A gemstone cannot be polished without friction. Likewise, a person cannot become successful without enough hard attempts.
- Confucius

I would rather fail at something I like than succeed at something I hate.
- George Burns

The main troubles 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 busy with something other than their own business.
- Boris Akunin

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

Deep within a person lie dormant forces - powers that can shake his imagination, the possession of which he could never even dream of, such powers that can completely transform his entire life if they are organized and harnessed to work.
- Horizon 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 one’s inaction, laziness and various despondencies. You have to work, and then, 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'll never write a good book without writing a few bad ones first.
- 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 who he becomes in the process of doing it.
- John Ruskin

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