How to motivate yourself to do something: quotes from successful people

Feeling of worthlessness

Most often, complete loneliness overtakes a person after parting with loved ones or after the death of loved ones. Then all he can do is write about his suffering on social networks. Therefore, it is necessary to pay a little attention to these statuses.

Sometimes you suddenly begin to clearly understand that the one in whom you saw your only salvation only wanted to play with you a little in his free time.
People feel most lonely during the holidays. He understands that he will never again hear warm congratulations or receive the desired gifts.
When a man proposes to a woman, it is as if he is silently telling her: “I can’t live without you.” When he proposes a civil marriage to her, he tells her: “I can live without you.”
People who have loved ones for some reason think that they fully deserve the greatest favors of fate. They do not yet know that they are not the ones who control the lives of others and their own.
Loneliness is scary because it draws an iron border around a person. And neither he himself nor others are able to step over it.
Those who don't care about you will one day remember your kindness with pain.
At first we do not pay attention to our loved ones. And then, having lost them, we fall to our knees, shuddering from internal pain.
Thanks to everyone who refused to support me. It was thanks to them that I managed to do it myself.
First, a man makes incredible efforts to achieve a woman. And then he spends the same amount of energy trying to get rid of it.
Yesterday you had dreams. Today you have plans. And tomorrow you’re already falling into the abyss and you’re already thinking about only one thing: when you finally fall to the bottom and it’s all over.
Take care of your loved ones. Apart from them, no one else needs us.
It is strange that those who make no effort find love. And those for whom it is more important than anything in the world only lose it.
There are no free women. There are only those who have come to terms with their loneliness.
Girls who have wasted the heat of their soul become cold.
It's scary to be useless. But it’s no less scary to be close to someone to whom you are not important.
When Sberbank sent me a congratulation on my birthday, I saved it. It became the only kind words spoken to me all the time.
People betray those who love them. And then they go around and complain to everyone about their loneliness.

When no one needs love

On social networks you often come across sad statuses about being useless to anyone. They are written by both adults and very young people. But if youth still finds a mate, then those who are older are sometimes left alone forever.

You yourself don’t know when you realize that absolutely no one is interested in you. Therefore, it is better not to ignore the pain of another person.
If someone is important to you, then you will love him, even after learning about his worst shortcomings. If he is superfluous to you, then you won’t even need his angelic soul.
Freedom is sought only by those who do not have it. Anyone who is lonely feels fear when they talk about her.
There is only one price for becoming important to someone: sincere love.
Don't waste your time on people who only need you for entertainment. Such people will not support you in difficult times.
As long as a person has a mother, he has no right to consider himself lonely.
It is important that you are needed by the one who is most important to you in the world.
"It's your problem". And the fact that there is nothing human in you at all, whose problem is that?
When a person realizes that no one else needs his love, he loses the meaning of life.
The worst thing is when those in whom you saw your future become the past.
When you talk about your uselessness, you feel horror. And in response you hear: “Okay, everything will work out.”
You should not reveal your soul to those who are not interested in it.
It's hard to smile when everything inside is torn with pain. But there is nowhere to go. No one cares about your tears.
You have to pay a lot for love. Suffering and loneliness.
You shouldn't impose yourself on people. If you don't want to get kicked, it's better to keep quiet about your sorrows.
If you think that someone sympathizes with you, you are very mistaken.
If you have a cat, then you are not alone.
You want to extend your hand to a person, but he pushes you away. And it’s as if you’re drowning and want to drag him down with you.
People don't feel other people's pain.
I want to be with you, but I can't. But no one is interested in me anymore.
Why are people sent trials that they cannot pass alone?
Restlessness and loneliness go hand in hand.
It's strange that no one is interested in good people. And brawlers and scoundrels live in strong families.
When loved ones leave, it is difficult to get used to the fact that there is no one to share even the most important thoughts with.
Strong people are silent and tolerate their loneliness. And then someone asks: “Where is he, haven’t seen him for a long time?” And it turns out that he died a long time ago. It’s just that no one missed him.
If you see a status that says that no one needs a person, don’t pass by. Even a couple of kind words can save him.
You will leave the social network and go to your friends, parents, loved ones. And someone will disconnect from them and fall on the bed sobbing.
It’s sad when there is a lot of love in your heart, but there is no one to give it to.
Family is the most precious thing in the world. The only bad thing is that many people realize this only when they realize that they are no longer interesting to anyone.

Without you there is no me...

A false sense of need does not relieve a person from loneliness. Carefully study statuses about use - perhaps they contain thoughts that will help you change your life for the better.

Each person has his own world. Not yours.
A person who strives to be in demand is doomed to be used.
Having done good to a person, we have not yet received his consent for further use.
People who are pleasant to treat are used more often than others.
We are all good in our own way. But not always and not with everyone.
If it’s in a person’s blood, to use others, no stick can knock it out.
There are no random people in life. If someone appears on the horizon, it means that he needs something from you.
A person who claims that he is white and fluffy should be under your close attention. Because it may have become moldy...
If a person used you, rewind the tape of your relationship with him. You'll almost certainly find a shot there that will explain everything to you.
The use of man by man legally ended in our country in 1861!
Boomerang has not been canceled. So this “user” will get what he deserves. Do not doubt.
Leave alone those who think of you when they need something.
You need to work on yourself so that the people who use you no longer need you.
Everything that you entrusted to unworthy people will be used against you.
If you understand that a person has used you, it is stupid to be offended by him. You just need to draw conclusions about it.
Being a rag, he found it - a mop...
People come into and out of our lives. There's nothing wrong with that. It’s worse to rely on those for whom you are easy to use...
The way other people evaluate you shows how you agree to be treated.
You can communicate with people who take advantage of you, but you can’t have common affairs!
People take everything for granted. Therefore, if you stepped over yourself so as not to offend the other, from now on he will always expect this.
Law of life: people are usually drawn to those who do not need anyone.
The difference between men and women is already observed in childhood. Boys play with cars and war games... and girls?! Into the dolls! This means that they have been preparing to manipulate people since childhood...
For some girls, the status “My Man” means the baggage of material well-being, presentable appearance and readiness to fulfill her every desire. But in fact, this definition should simply mean a loved one...
A true man will always achieve... what a woman wants!
Men are strange. They call women weak, being in their captivity.
There are two types of attitude towards a person in life: either he is loved or he is used. It happens that he is not needed at all, but then it is no longer an attitude, but its absence.
If you never trusted a person and he deceived you, it is much less offensive than if you trusted him with all your heart...
There is no point in being offended without benefit; we need to form an adequate opinion about the people around us.
The point of some people is to come into our lives to snatch benefits for themselves...
In the new year, reduce the list of your acquaintances... at the expense of those who use you.
When you are not like everyone else, it is difficult to use you...
Powerful people are used to using others. Some serve them for business, others for pleasure.
Some people get used to using others and do it without realizing it...

When there is no way out of a dead end in sight

If someone sees statuses about a person’s uselessness, then they should definitely support him. People write them out of deep despair. Therefore, you should not spare a little joy for them.

It’s scary to wake up every morning and realize that another hard day awaits you alone. And any step does not move away from him, but only plunges him even deeper.
You are needed only by those who charge you for housing and communal services. And then, not you, but your money. They will take them from the dead if someone pays for it.
People who have a family don’t even notice how many evil and heartless monsters there are around.
The idea that when a person emerges from trials, he becomes stronger, was invented by those who never faced them in their lives.
Lonely people are not interesting to society.
When the woman is left alone, she suddenly discovers that all the admirers who previously caused her quarrels with her husband have suddenly disappeared somewhere.
You are only important to those who care about you. Everyone else is just spending their empty time with you.
A quarrel with a loved one is not scary. It’s scary when there’s no one to even quarrel with.
People are ready to lend a helping hand to anyone who does not need it at all.
Loneliness is felt when you talk to another person every day and no one in your life sticks around.
No one needs you when even your kind word is not valued a penny.
At first people only care about themselves. And then they suddenly notice that they, in fact, have no one else to care about.
Everyone should have at least 1 person in their life who would be scared if they got sick.
Often someone screams from internal pain. But at the same time I don’t intend to let anyone into my life.
The horror of loneliness is that it comes suddenly. Like a brick on your head. Just yesterday you were the most important to someone. And today you are already in the trash heap of life.
Don’t try to be the first person you meet to plug the hole left by the departure of loved ones. It will only get worse.
Fight for your loved ones. Don't think you can do it without them. You can't handle it.
A person does not need the whole world when there is no one nearby who would need him.
I wasted my time on fake friends, and my beloved felt the meaninglessness of her existence. Now I'm all alone. And my fake friends don’t need me either.
Is it normal that there are thousands of people around who are not interesting to anyone?
A person gradually gets used to his own uselessness. And, continuing to suffer from it, he no longer lets anyone into his life.
It doesn't matter why someone was left alone. In any case, he feels abandoned.

The fact that no one needs a person is the worst thing that can happen in anyone’s life. Therefore, if someone sees a status on such a topic, you should not take it too lightly.

Quotes about work

Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin

I present to you a selection of quotes about work .

Work plays a big role in our lives, but many are ready to put up with a place of work that is not the most interesting for them.

Quotes are summarized by topic: motivation to work, earnings, money and work, women and work, thoughts and work, love and work, creativity and work, the meaning of life and work, favorite work, man and work, Russian people and work, time and work, talent and work, illness and work, joy and work, soul and work, society and work, freedom and work, etc.

Motivation to work

Those who want to work look for means, those who don’t want to look for reasons. (S. Korolev)

Try to achieve the impossible if you want your work to improve. (B. Davis)

I always work better after listening to music. (I. Goethe)

Insult is a common reward for good work. (M. Bulgakov)

Great labors will be rewarded with hunger, and thirst, hardships, and blows, and injections, and curses, and great meanness. (L. da Vinci)

Any job is difficult until you love it, but then it excites you and becomes easier. (M. Gorky)

Motivation to work is part of motivation to live. (E. Voutilainen)

Only two incentives force people to work: the thirst for wages and the fear of losing it. (G. Ford)

A compliment doubles a woman's productivity. (F. Sagan)

Don't let those who work for you live too calmly. Always do the opposite of what they expect from you. Let them worry and look over their shoulders all the time. (G. Ford)

What motivates me? I think most creative people are eager to express gratitude for enjoying the fruits of the work others have done before them. (S. Jobs)

I believe that profit is a good motivator, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with it. In reality, profit simply means that you are paid more for your work than you spend on it. This is good. (I. Musk)

To start working, you need to be so bored that you don’t want anything else. (A. and B. Strugatsky)

Work like hell. I mean you have to work 80 to 100 hours a week every week. This increases the chances of success. If everyone else works 40 hours a week, and you work 100 hours, then even if you do the same things, you will achieve in 4 months what others will take a whole year to achieve. (I. Musk)

Earnings

I can account for every million I make except the first. (D. Rockefeller)

A person gifted with spiritual powers of a higher order pursues tasks that do not fit with earning money. (A. Schopenhauer)

A writer, of course, must earn money in order to be able to exist and write, but in no case should he exist and write in order to earn money. (K. Marx)

The employer does not issue the salary, the employer only distributes the money. The client issues the salary. (G. Ford)

When all you think about is how to make money, it’s a lot of work. Little by little, without noticing it, a person loses himself. (H. Murakami)

Currently, those who do the hardest work are paid the least; those whose work is easier have greater rewards. However, those who do nothing get the most. (B. Shaw)

We are not thinkers, our salaries are not the same! (V. Shukshin)

Cruel morals, sir, in our city, cruel! In philistinism, sir, you will see nothing but rudeness and naked poverty. And we, sir, will never escape this crust! Because honest work will never earn us more than our daily bread. (A. Ostrovsky)

With age, the desire to earn money turns into a desire to save. (M. Zhvanetsky)

Money and work

He who works all day has no time to earn money. (D. Rockefeller)

The world is made up of slackers who want to have money without working, and idiots who are willing to work without getting rich. (B. Shaw)

It seems that everyone was looking for the shortest road to money and at the same time bypassing the most direct one - the one that leads through work. (G. Ford)

What's the point of money if you have to work for it? (B. Shaw)

Work can bring much more pleasure than money. Money eventually becomes a symbol of independence. (K. Chanel)

I sometimes ask myself: why the hell are we spinning like this? To make money? But why the hell do we need money if all we do is spin? (A. and B. Strugatsky)

Pennies don't fall to us from heaven, we have to earn them here on earth. (M. Thatcher)

Work as if money doesn't matter to you. (M. Twain)

I have a place, however, this is far from the most important thing. You also need to be able to receive money. (M. Bulgakov)

Easy money - it doesn’t weigh anything, and you don’t have that feeling that you’ve earned it. The old people were right when they said: what you don’t pay extra for, you don’t report. (A. Solzhenitsyn)

An advance is a seizure of the future. (A. Chekhov)

By the way, quotes about money

Women and work

The main thing for a woman is to work constantly. Only work gives courage, and the spirit, in turn, takes care of the fate of the body. (K. Chanel)

Maybe work is not a very pleasant experience, but you have to go somewhere in the morning. (Ya. Ipokhorskaya)

There is no harder work than trying to look beautiful from eight in the morning until midnight. (B. Bardo)

A woman is not metal furniture; she is a flower. She doesn't want to be businesslike. She needs sunny, sweet words. It’s better to say something nice to her every day than to work for her all your life with gloomy frenzy. (E.M. Remarque)

From work, both menial and difficult, You will fade before you have time to bloom, You will plunge into an uninterrupted sleep, You will nurse, work and eat. And in your face, full of movement, full of life, an expression of dull patience and senseless, eternal fear will suddenly appear. (N. Nekrasov)

By the way, quotes about women

Thoughts and work

Where the spirit does not guide the artist's hand, there is no art. Where the thought does not work together with the hand, there is no artist. (L. da Vinci)

Thought is the beginning of everything. And thoughts can be controlled. And therefore, the main thing to improve is to work on thoughts. (L. Tolstoy)

Thought is not free if it cannot be used to make a living. (B. Russell)

It’s not so much the work itself that tires you, but the thoughts about it. (M.F. Quintilian)

Thinking is the hardest job; This is probably why so few people do this. (G. Ford)

For most people, the punishment is having to think. The ideal job seems to them to be one that does not make any demands on the creative instinct. (G. Ford)

Most people are willing to work endlessly just to avoid having to think a little. (T. Edison)

One brilliant idea is more important than a lifetime filled with bureaucratic work. (A. Hitler)

By the way, quotes about thoughts

Love and work

There is a time to work, and there is a time to love. There is no other time left. (K. Chanel)

Love and work are the only worthwhile things in life. Work is a unique form of love. (M. Monroe)

When falling in love, I always surrendered completely to my feeling. But when I had to choose between a man and my dresses, I chose the dresses. I have always been stronger than my passions; work was a kind of drug for me. (K. Chanel)

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanity. (S. Freud)

No matter how hard you work, you still won’t earn the right to claim that everyone will treat you with love; on the contrary, you become lonely, a stranger to everyone, and just an object of curiosity. (F. Kafka)

He who does not work does not make love. (A. Celentano)

If you think about work all the time, you can lose interest in it even before you sit down at your desk the next day. It is necessary to get physical exercise, to get tired of the body, and especially to indulge in love with the woman you love. (E. Hemingway)

By the way, quotes about love

Creativity and work

There is no need to work on poetry, the poetry needs to work on you (in you!). (M. Tsvetaeva)

Work on a work of art can never be completed, but can only be abandoned. (L. da Vinci)

What a joy it is to admire some object and, finding it beautiful, think about it, remember it and then say: I will draw it, and I will work until it comes to life under my hand. (V. Van Gogh)

Essentially, the poet’s entire work comes down to the execution, the physical fulfillment of a spiritual (not his own) task. Just like the whole will of the poet is the working will to realize it. (There is no individual creative will.) (M. Tsvetaeva)

Work is torture for me. I can't help but feel like I don't know anything. And over the years, playing only becomes more difficult. You doubt more and more. In yourself. In your skill. In professionalism. (E. Leonov)

By the way, quotes about creativity

The meaning of life and work

A day is never too long for a busy person! Let's extend our lives! After all, both its meaning and its main sign are activity. (L. Seneca)

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, need. (Voltaire)

By working only for material benefits, we build a prison for ourselves. (A. Saint-Exupery)

First, a person sacrifices his health in order to earn money. He then spends the money to restore his health. At the same time, he is so worried about his future that he never enjoys the present. As a result, he lives neither in the present nor in the future. He lives as if he would never die, and when he dies he regrets that he never lived. (Dalai Lama)

Too many people spend their hard-earned money on things they don't need to impress people they don't like. (W. Rogers)

Generations after generations of people work in jobs they hate just so they can buy things they don't need. (C. Palahniuk)

Favorite work

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

Our favorite work wakes us up early, and we happily take on it. (W. Shakespeare)

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. (S. Jobs)

Compromise is when you do something you don't want to do. And this is the whole tragedy. Because a person is happy in his personal life and effective at work only when he does what he loves. (M. Labkovsky)

I love work: it captivates me completely. I can sit for hours and watch others work. (D.K. Jerome)

Man and work

Work is a necessity for a person. Man invented the alarm clock. (P. Picasso)

The decisive role in the work is not always played by the material, but always by the artist. (M. Gorky)

If everyone worked while sitting in sacks, there would be no prejudices. We would have to judge people by their qualities, and not by their appearance... (D. Lennon)

If everything seems easy, this unmistakably proves that the worker has very little skill and that the work is beyond his understanding. (L. da Vinci)

In my opinion, a person cannot do otherwise than to be constantly at work. During the day he should think about her, and at night he should dream about her. (G. Ford)

My job is not to make people's lives easier. My job is to make them better. (S. Jobs)

Work is the last refuge of those who can’t do anything else. (O. Wilde)

All work is done by those who have not yet learned not to work. (A. Davidovich)

By the way, quotes about people

Russian people and work

Our person’s dream is not to work anywhere, but to earn good money. (M. Zhvanetsky)

You will never get anything for free. We will work, we will have our own opinion. And since we will never work, those who have hitherto worked instead of us will have an opinion for us, that is, the same Europe, the same Germans - our two-hundred-year-old teachers. (F. Dostoevsky)

Work is like a stick, it has two ends: if you do it for people, it gives you quality; if you do it for your boss, it gives you show off. (A. Solzhenitsyn)

Previously, half the country worked, but half did not work. And now it's the other way around. (V. Chernomyrdin)

Americans work if they pay well. The Russians are working. If they pay, good. (V. Turovsky)

Russia is a country of talents. There is a lot of talent - there is no one to work with. (M. Zhvanetsky)

Time and work

Every task has its time. (L. Seneca)

You need to work wisely, and not until night! (L. Seneca)

You need to work not 12 hours, but with your head! (S. Jobs)

Great geniuses sometimes achieve more when they work less. (L. da Vinci)

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. (A. Alla)

Time is the knowledge worker's capital. (O. Balzac)

Most people work most of the time to live, and the little free time they have left worries them so much that they try in every possible way to get rid of it. (I. Goethe)

How quickly time flies: you don’t even have time to wake up and you’re already late for work. (M. Zhvanetsky)

By the way, quotes about time

Talent and work

Talent is the desire to work, and secondly, the ability to work. (K. Stanislavsky)

Talent is the ability to believe in success. It’s complete nonsense when they say that I suddenly discovered a talent in myself. I was just working. (D. Lennon)

Genius may be just a fleeting opportunity. Only work and will can give it life and turn it into glory. (A. Camus)

Talent develops from a feeling of love for the work, it is even possible that talent - in its essence - is love for the work, for the process of work. (M. Gorky)

You don't have to hire a lot of people to do complex work. Quantity never compensates for talent, and two people who don’t know something are no better than one. (I. Musk)

Illness and work

Work is necessary for health. (Hippocrates)

Work is the best cure for all ills. (E. Hemingway)

The work we do willingly heals pain. (W. Shakespeare)

Work is a kind of neurosis. (D. Herold)

Work amuses me infinitely more than any other occupation, and if I could devote myself to it with all my energy, it would be my best medicine. (V. Van Gogh)

Let me continue my work calmly. If this is the work of a madman, well, so much the worse. I still can't do anything about it. (V. Van Gogh)

Joy and work

Work is only joyful when it is undoubtedly needed. (L. Tolstoy)

Work is my first pleasure. (W. Mozart)

Labor is often the father of pleasure. (Voltaire)

Work is the best way to enjoy life. (I. Kant)

Joy is not that your work is successful, joy is when you work. (D. London)

Great joy is work. All the happiness of the earth comes from work! (V. Bryusov)

There is no holiday in life for those who do not work on weekdays. (N. Nekrasov)

Soul and work

And the work made her feel better; manual work heals a sick, yearning soul. (A. Platonov)

In my opinion, I am often, although not every day, fabulously rich - not in money, but because I find something in my work that I can devote my soul and heart to, that inspires me and gives meaning to my life. (V. Van Gogh)

Those people who say that for them there is only work, and that there is not enough soul work for everything else are wrong. It is not true. These people simply don't know how to work. Or they have become so hardened that they have forgotten how to enjoy life, and every day, along with a bunch of worries that it brings, still gives some small joys. (V. Listyev)

By the way, quotes about the soul

Society and work

Work constantly, do not consider work to be a disaster or a burden for yourself, and do not desire praise or participation for yourself for it. The common good is what you should desire. (M. Aurelius)

The more acute the thirst for money, the less likely you are to get it. But if you work with the idea of the public good, feeling that you are right and getting satisfaction from it, money appears by itself. (G. Ford)

I don't need thinking people, I need working people. (D. Rockefeller)

Communism is the highest stage of development of socialism, when people work out of the consciousness of the need to work for the common benefit. (V. Lenin)

Freedom and work

Only that person has the right to be called free who is at least occasionally idle. (M. Cicero)

The kingdom of freedom actually begins only where work, dictated by need and external expediency, ceases; therefore, by the nature of things, it lies on the other side of the sphere of material production itself. (K. Marx)

Freedom is the right to work a reasonable amount of time and receive adequate remuneration for one's work to ensure a decent standard of living, the right to be able to manage one's own life. (G. Ford)

By the way, quotes about freedom

Laziness and work

Laziness is the fear of expected work. (M. Cicero)

What a lazy person is, in essence: an ordinary person who is too lazy to even pretend to work. (A. Alla)

Laziness is hidden deep in our culture - “work is not a wolf,” etc., but human laziness is still bad from the point of view of the development of the economy, science and art. Doing nothing leads to regression and decay. Therefore, it would be better for our entire country, and culture, if people were as lazy as possible. (P. Durov)

Family and work

Home is a prison for a man and a workhouse for a woman. (B. Shaw)

If a person has a family to feed, if his work is accompanied by income, it is easier for a person to force his muscles to work, overcoming pain, fatigue, and sometimes disgust. (A. Makarenko)

Decent people do not force their wives to work, for this they have servants, and the wife only... to dress her in the best possible way, to admire her, to take her out to people, to give all the pleasures, to fulfill her every whim, like a law... to idolize her. (A. Ostrovsky)

By the way, quotes about marriage and weddings

MBA and work

Try your best to avoid hiring people with an MBA. An MBA program doesn't teach people how to start companies. (I. Musk)

Wise people are so smart and practical that they know absolutely exactly why this or that is unrealistic; for some reason they are prone to restrictions. This is why I prefer not to deal with certified specialists. If I had a desire to deal with my competitors by dishonest means, I would definitely recommend them to a couple of specialists. They usually give so much useful advice that they don't have time to work. (G. Ford)

Rest and work

One of the undoubted and pure joys is rest after work. (I. Kant)

Work by obligation is work, and work by inclination is leisure. (B. Shaw)

I rest when I work and get tired when I am idle or receiving guests. (P. Picasso)

I have a strange body. I don't remember a time when work tired me. But idleness exhausts me. (A. Conan Doyle)

The best job is a highly paid hobby. (G. Ford)

Life and work

To live means to work. Labor is human life. (Voltaire)

Work is my life function. When I don't work, I don't feel any life in myself. (J. Verne)

Who does not work shall not eat. (V. Lenin)

I paid with my life for my work, and it cost me half my sanity. (V. Van Gogh)

Just living until you die is hard work. (C. Bukowski)

By the way, quotes about life

Teamwork

My only desire all my life was the desire to attract as many capable people as possible to work together, that is, to arrange them so that they work with me, and not against me. (D. Rockefeller)

Healthy mistrust is a good basis for working together. (I. Stalin)

It is very important that you like the people you work with, otherwise life and work will be quite unhappy. (I. Musk)

Men and work

Men have no appetite. Appetite is developed by idleness, exercise and bliss, hunger - by time and hard work. (I. Goncharov)

It wouldn’t be a bad thing for us to adopt this noble habit of work... Bless the people’s work And learn to respect the peasant. (N. Nekrasov)

By the way, quotes about men

Children and work

What a child is like at play, so in many ways he will be at work when he grows up. (A. Makarenko)

Labor is, first of all, an area of children’s emotional life. A child strives to work when work gives him joy. (V. Sukhomlinsky)

An hour of work will teach more than a day of explanation, for if I occupy a child in a workshop, his hands work in favor of his mind: he becomes a philosopher, considering himself only a craftsman. (V. Sukhomlinsky)

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Career

A career is a wonderful thing, but it can't warm anyone on a cold night. (M. Monroe)

I hope that in the future we will see more and more women combining marriage and career. The prejudice against such a dual role does not only come from men. Much more often, unfortunately, this comes from representatives of our own sex. You can continue to work, then take a short vacation when you expect an addition to your family, and then return to work again. (M. Thatcher)

Lack of work

It is better to work without a specific goal than to do nothing. (Socrates)

Business eradicates the vices generated by idleness. (L. Seneca)

It is better to have no ideology than not to have a job. (E. Hemingway)

Any fool can carve out some work for himself: on the contrary, only a wise person can do without it. (C. Bukowski)

Work with people

It makes no sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. (S. Jobs)

All we are are our ideas and our people. Only the brilliantly smart people within the company's walls force us to get up in the morning and drag ourselves to work. I have always believed that the right selection of employees is the key to success in any business. (S. Jobs)

Professions

A journalist is a street cleaner who works with a pen. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

A scientist is a lazy person who kills time with work. (B. Shaw)

Why am I working as a stoker? The work is so natural. You can’t pretend here, like in all these offices. You throw coal into the firebox, and the people above are warm. Everyone can see everything at once. (V. Tsoi)

Happiness and work

For people to find happiness in their work, three conditions are necessary: the work must be within their capabilities, it must not be exhausting, and it must be successful. (D. Reskin)

To achieve perfection in one's work, to reach the limit, is a great happiness, but at the same time there is danger. (K. Paustovsky)

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Inspiration and work

I believe in regular work and never wait for inspiration. (D. London)

When inspiration comes to me, it finds me at work. (P. Picasso)

Inspiration comes only while working. (G. Marquez)

Problems and work

Intemperance in small things will ruin a great cause. (Confucius)

It's not the work that's exhausting, it's the responsibility. (O. Bismarck)

No task will seem impossible if you break it down into small parts. (G. Ford)

Loneliness and work

Without great solitude, serious work is impossible. (P. Picasso)

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a huge difference. They don't have to make speeches. Simple faith is usually enough. (S. King)

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Quality of work

Quality is doing something right even when no one is looking. (G. Ford)

God pleases not the quantity, but the quality of our work. (M. Gandhi)

About miscellaneous

He who is careless in his work is the brother of the wasteful man. (Solomon)

The greatness of some things lies not so much in their size as in their timeliness. (L. Seneca)

Smoking is not compatible with creative work—it makes you stupid. (I. Goethe)

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man is a worker in it. (I. Turgenev)

As we can see, in quotes about work, most attention is paid to motivational and financial aspects, as well as the relationship of work with women, thoughts, love, creativity, and the meaning of life.

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