Hi Mentors,
These are the quotes that Mr. Der-Tavitian wants us to pass on to the mentees and discuss and analyze for our next activity.
Thanks,
Aleen
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
Yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
(Aysorvan kordzuh vaghvan mi togher)
Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
Dostoyvesky
Toil, says the prover, is the sire of fame.
Euripedes (c. 450 B.C.)
When work is pleasure, life is a joy!
When work is duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire
If you direct your whole thought to work itself,
none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
Quintilian (c. 70 A.D.)
If thou be not busy for thyself now,
who shall be busy for thee in time to come?
Thomas A. Kempis
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into
practical living and till my own field, I can't reap a kernel of the good.
Helen Keller
Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth,
because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard
and make it on their own.
Lee Iacocca