Quelques citations, moins anciennes, sur le travail:
"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it." (Buddha)
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." (Lao Tseu)
"Il n'y a point de travail honteux." (Socrate)
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." / "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." (Confucius)
"Not having learned it is not as good as having learned it; having learned it is not as good as having seen it carried out; having seen it is not as good as understanding it; understanding it is not as good as doing it. The development of scholarship is to the extreme of doing it, and that is its end and goal. He who carries it out, knows it thoroughly." (Xun Kuang ou Xun Zi, penseur chinois confucianiste du 3ème siècle avant JC)
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." (Aristotle)
"Les avares subissent le sort des abeilles: ils travaillent comme s'ils devaient vivre éternellement." (Démocrite)
"Le travail est l'aliment des âmes nobles." (Sénèque)
"Un travail constant vient à bout de tout." / "Le travail acharné et l’extrême indigence triomphent de tout." (Virgile)
"Le monde repose sur trois bases: l'étude, le travail, la charité." (Siméon le Juste)
"Quoique Dieu soit le dispensateur de tous les biens, il veut qu'on les achète par le travail." (Mocharrafoddin Saadi) / "God sells us all things at the price of labor." (Leonardo Da Vinci)
"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." (Saint Francis)
"The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship." (Martin Luther)
"Love turns work into rest." (Thérèse d'Avila, 1515-82).
"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced." (Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592)
"Le travail éloigne de nous trois grands maux: l’ennui, le vice et le besoin." / "Our labour preserves us from three great evils: weariness, vice, and want." (Voltaire, 1694-1778)
"L'oisiveté est comme la rouille; elle use plus que le travail." (Benjamin Franklin, 1706-90)
"La tempérance et le travail sont les meilleurs médecins de l'homme." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-78)
"L'oisiveté lasse plus promptement que le travail." (Vauvenargues, 1715-47)
"On se lasse de tout, excepté du travail." / "L'étude des sciences seules peut amortir la douleur." (François Gaston de Lévis, 1er Duc de Lévis, 1719-87) / "Rien n'assure mieux le repos du cœur que le travail de l'esprit." (Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis, 2nd duc de Lévis, 1764-1830) [à comparer à: "Ce n'est pas dans la science qu'est le bonheur, mais dans l'acquisition de la science." (Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-49)].
"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. " (Adam Smith, 1723-90)
"I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826)
"The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832)
"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both." (François-René, de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848)
"C’est par la médiation du travail que la conscience vient à soi-même." (Friedrich Hegel, 1770-1831)
"All happiness depends on courage and work." / "Toute obligation, même la plus douce, pèse au jeune âge: il faut avoir expérimenté la vie pour reconnaître la nécessité d'un joug et celle du travail." (Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850)
"Le capital est seulement le fruit du travail et il n'aurait jamais pu exister si le travail n'avait tout d'abord existé." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65)
"Jours de travail! Seuls jours où j'ai vécu!" (Alfred de Musset, 1810-57)
"Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair." (David Livingstone, 1813-1873)
"Un homme devrait cesser d'écrire après trois heures de travail quotidien." (Anthony Trollope, 1815-82)
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work." / "Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work." (Gustave Flaubert, 1821-80)
"Tout ce que nous sommes est l'aboutissement d'un travail séculaire." (Ernest Renan, 1823-92)
"L’orgueil de son travail rend, non seulement la fourmi, mais l’homme cruel." (Léon Tolstoï, 1828-1910) / "But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest." (Leo Tolstoy)
"À force de travail et de recherches on atteint la perfection." (Victor Cherbuliez, 1829-99)
"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt." / "Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life." (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." (Émile Zola, 1840-1902)
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. " (William James, 1842-1910)
"Le travail est la prière des esclaves; la prière est le travail des hommes libres." (Léon Bloy, 1846-1917)
"Amour et travail, travail et amour… c’est tout ce qu’il y a." / "Etre normal, c'est aimer et travailler." / "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." (Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939)
"Je n’aime pas le travail, nul ne l’aime; mais j’aime ce qui est dans le travail l’occasion de se découvrir soi-même." (Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924)
"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." / "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." / "The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." (Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919)
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right." (Henry Ford, 1863-1947)
"Seul le travail peut pratiquement nous consoler d'être nés." (Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1936)
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." (George Horace Lorimer, 1867-1937)
"Le propre du travail, c'est d'être forcé." / "Ce qui console d’un travail difficile, c’est qu’il est difficile." (Alain, 1868-1951)
"Seul, j'appartiens à la tristesse, dès que ne m'accapare plus le travail." (André Gide, 1869-1951)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." (Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970)
"Il y a récession quand votre voisin perd son travail, dépression quand vous perdez le vôtre." / "It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own." (Harry Truman, 1884-1972)
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." (Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955)
"Sans le travail, comment prétendriez-vous résister à la mort?" (Aleksander Wat, nom de plume d'Aleksander Chwat, 1900-67)
"On revient avec le crédit à une situation proprement féodale, celle d'une fraction de travail due d'avance au seigneur, au travail asservi." (Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007)
"La paresse peut paraître attrayante, mais le travail apporte la satisfaction." (Anne Frank, 1929-45)
"No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." (Martin Luther King, 1929-68)
"Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working." / "That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it." (Charles Bukowski)
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Le courage est cité ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/290721/contre-la-peur-un-seul-remede-le-courage
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