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. 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 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 Daley

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

Working for the owner or a large 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 most pure water- 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 beating against stones, water that sang and weaved in suffering white foam hopes, at each meeting with obstacles in its path, giving birth to a rainbow.
- 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 will never break through to the top, and the one who does not Furthermore what they say to him.
- 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, ex-president 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

Doesn't make sense to hire intelligent people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people to tell us what to do. - Steve Jobs, Founder and CEO 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 - 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, the most faithful companions into old age! With their help, only a couple will remain active action: look slightly and chew a little. Old age will seat you in an easy chair, carefully wrap it in a soft blanket and undoubtedly lead you to the grave.

"There is work the best medicine. Labor is the only basis of life. Labor 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. Exactly daily labor there is an accumulation of 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 power to improve its quality. You can love work only by knowing it. Love for work is the best way for 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

Business Quotes

If something is really worth doing, it's worth doing it badly. Gilbert Chesterton

It is one thing to be in time, another thing to hurry: whoever does one thing on time, he has time, who grabs at a lot and does not finish anything, he is in a hurry. Marcus Porcius Cato (senior)

In serious matters, care should be taken not so much to create favorable opportunities as to seize them. François de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Who, undertaking a business, hastens to quickly achieve a result, he 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 other hand, the aspiration of the mind to something brings with it cheerfulness, always directed towards the strengthening of life. Hippocrates

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

If you wrote about all the good things you had to do and omitted all the bad things you did, it's a memoir. Will Rogers

great person he undertakes 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 the matter, 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 the arts, since it makes everyone its slaves of their own free will, and not under duress. Gorgias

Everyone knows from childhood that this and that is impossible. But there is always an ignoramus who does not know this. He makes a discovery. Albert Einstein

Business is not chasing us - people themselves are holding on to them and consider being busy a sign of happiness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (junior)

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

The business of medical art is not to make every person healthy, but to approach this goal as far as possible, because it is quite possible to treat well 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 a jester does it for the sake of others. Aristotle

There are no such positions and there are no such insignificant matters in which wisdom could not be manifested. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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

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

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

Sincerely praising good works means taking part in them to some extent. François de La Rochefoucauld

Every day, or every other day, force yourself to do something you don't like to do, lest the hour of cruel necessity, when it arrives, take you by surprise. William James

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

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

Mysticism leads to inaction; hope in heavenly powers hinders putting earthly affairs in order. Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev

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

Alcohol helps parliament decide things at eleven o'clock in the evening that no man in his right mind could decide at eleven o'clock in the morning. George Bernard Shaw

Good luck man. Who enters the chamber of Fortune through the gates of joy, leaves through the gates of sorrow - and vice versa. Therefore, think about the end of the matter, take care to leave happily, and not to enter beautifully. Baltasar Gracian y Morales

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

You can hesitate for twenty years before you take a step, but you can't back down when it's already taken. Alfred de Musset

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

There is no business that would be more difficult to organize, more dangerous to conduct, and more doubtful of success than replacing the old order with a new one. Niccolo Machiavelli

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

GREAT PEOPLE

Find a job you like, then you won't 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 is the highest justice of life.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

Voltaire

The exceptional happiness of a person is to be at his constant favorite business.

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

Each person corresponds to a certain kind 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 is engaged in some kind of business, for example, reading Roman law, and on the twenty-first - it suddenly turns out that Roman law has nothing to do with it, that he does not even understand it and does not love it, but in fact he is a subtle gardener and burns with love to flowers. This happens, presumably, from the imperfection of our social system, in which very often people find themselves in their place only towards the end of their lives.

(Michael Bulgakov famous Russian writer

Your destiny is hidden in what you love to do more than anything in the world.

(Jonathan Zakarin – famous writer and philosopher)

One thing, constantly and strictly carried out, streamlines everything else in life, everything revolves around it.

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

The main misfortunes of the human race are due to 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[real name Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili] - a famous Russian writer, Japanese scientist, literary critic, translator)

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

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

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

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

Every person is born for some work. Everyone who walks the earth has his duties in life.

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

To find one's own path, to know one's place - this is everything for a person, it 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 something I didn't want to do.

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

RICH PEOPLE

“A job you love brings the greatest satisfaction in life. Only by finding the business that occupies and captivates you every minute, you can become happy, become someone, and not be zero without a wand.

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

“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 excellently, knowing it. And the only way to do your job perfectly is to love it. If you haven't found your favorite thing yet, keep looking. Don't stop looking until you find it. As with everything else that the heart lies in, you will immediately understand that you have found what you were looking for. And like any great relationship, your passion for work will only increase over time. So keep looking and don't rest until you find it."

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

“Do what you like. Learn. Learn. Develop. Change yourself from within. Golden Rule says - do what gives real 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, ranked 350th in the ranking of Russian billionaires)

“You need to listen to yourself and do what you have a penchant for. Because there are 7 billion people in the world, and everyone is fighting for their piece of bread. If you do not do what you have a predisposition to, 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 something in which you are stronger than others. And to find something in which you can be better than others is a rare success.”

(Sergei Galitsky- Russian entrepreneur, co-owner of a large retail chain "Magnit". In 2012, Galitsky ranked 216th in the Forbes billionaires ranking with a fortune of $4.9 billion)

“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 can do, on the right - what I can’t. I realized that I can write, fantasize and draw. Then I thought: why not become a film director? A friend of mine had a friend whose brother worked as the third assistant director, and this sealed my fate. I came to the film studio, and I just fell in love with everything that I saw there and said to myself: this is mine! The next day, I warned my mother that I was leaving school, from my family, I would make a movie. ”

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

“At this point, I decided to be honest with myself and leave, despite all the money that kept me at Microsoft. The next day I arrived at the office, wrote Farewell letter employees of the company and went out the door. I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do, but I knew what I definitely wouldn’t do. I will not sit and wait and let my life and the world pass 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 Shay- American Internet entrepreneur, created the LinkExchange banner exchange network, which was acquired in 1998 by Microsoft for $ 265 million, promoted the Zappos.com online clothing, footwear and accessories store from zero sales to a billion dollar sales turnover (in 2009 Zappos was acquired by Amazon for $1.2 billion)

“The one who spends his time on activities that bring joy and satisfaction, who chooses to truly interesting work who decides with whom to communicate and helps his neighbor - he wakes up every morning and falls asleep every evening prosperous person IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY HE HAS IN THE 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 the exact knowledge of the fact that you are moving towards your full potential as a human being. Psychologist Abraham Maslow called this "self-actualization." He argues that this is the main characteristic of the most healthy, happy and successful members of our society.

(Brian Tracy is a famous writer and business coach. Brian Tracy's book "Achieving the 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 seller to a company vice president)

The best (from the known to me) ways to find your life's work (favorite business) is to find out and combine your talents, abilities and life purpose (individual mission). This is exactly what we are doing within the framework of the program.

Don't wait for change - create it!

Things do not chase after us - people themselves hold on to them 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 it is to do something, the harder it is to change it.
Principle This

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

Do not take on many things: with a lot of things you will not be left without guilt.
Old Testament, Jesus, son of Sirach, 11:10

Hofstadter's Law: A case always takes longer than you expected, even with Hofstadter's Law.
Douglas R. Hofstadter

WELLINGTON'S RULE: All deeds of the day must be done on that day.
Attributed to the Duke of Wellington

Priority - first of all, but not necessarily in this sequence.
McNulty's 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 cannot do more than one thing at the same time, but I can not do many things at the same time.
Ashley Brilliant

No one is so busy as not to tell everyone and everyone how busy they are.
Robert Lembke

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

As soon as you imagine that you are not able to do a certain thing, from that moment on it becomes impossible for you to do it.
B. Spinoza

As soon as a matter is decided by violence, violence cannot stop ... In solving a case by violence, victory is always not for the best people, but for more selfish, cunning, shameless and cruel.
L. Tolstoy

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

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

In every dubious case, the only way to avoid being wrong is to assume the worst possible end.
Louis IV

In a collective matter 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

The two kinds of people are incapable of doing anything. Windy and timid - one acts before thinking, the other thinks before acting.
author unknown

Business is someone else'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 badly today, you need to look back, 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. Lets

In all matters, it is important "how": friendliness, like a card sharper, plays for sure; courtesy adorns life, successfully playing the role of friendship.
B. Gracian

Whoever attaches importance to empty deeds important matters turns out to be an empty person.
Cato the Elder

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

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

It is worth giving your word that you will not do something, as you will certainly want to.
Mark Twain

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

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

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

One of the most amazing misconceptions is the misconception that a person's happiness consists in doing nothing.
L. Tolstoy

It's terribly hard work doing 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 really need a huge force.
K. Hubbard

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

To be surprised, one minute is enough to do an amazing thing, many years are needed.
K. Helvetius

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

If you want to have little time, do nothing.
A. Chekhov

There are people whose whole 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

The one 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 succeed in it much more 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 than to wish aging people an active activity that lasts until the final moment. Man's only way to shame death is not to wait with folded hands.
D. Iyesh