Proverbs about work - folk wisdom

Who does not know the scene from the movie "The Adventures of Shurik," where the foreman-chatterbox, lying on the straw, exhorts the man, sentenced to 15 days, to work hard? In these frames, the pseudo-educator with enviable agility issued some of the most famous proverbs about diligence and laziness.

Labor ennobles

In this, all sciences are natural, humanitarian and social. Even if we cast aside Darwin's questionable theory (which the author himself doubted) that allegedly the work turned a monkey into a human being, there will be no less significant fact: a toiler is farther from stupidity than a loafer. On this occasion the people and the saying added: "Drones are on the rogue".

It is not necessary to identify work with only hard physical labor: after all, it can be expressed both in intellectual efforts, in the movements of the soul, and in inventions. Wherever you look, human labor is everywhere, whether it is transport, houses or baked bread, books or wells, beautiful dresses and painted utensils, medicines and strollers for toddlers. For lack of labor, would such convenient and useful things appear?

Without human efforts, there would be no running water, electricity, telephones, computers, airplanes, and much more. Everything in the world, except Mother Nature, is the result of human labor.

Why is the work so popular in the people?

So the person is arranged that one of his basic needs is self-realization, creativity. This discovery was made by the famous American psychologist Abraham Maslow: his hierarchy of needs has been successfully used to this day.

Work is always creation, creativity: it raises a person to the next step, reveals his resources, gives a sense of his own need and importance. The common expression "to realize oneself" means to reveal one's potential, to work hard.

Recently, due to growing workaholism, stress and stress in megacities, the word "work" increasingly acquires a negative connotation of "slavery". There is also a version about the more ancient origin of this word, which, alas, denies "grandfathers" from the science of linguistics: the people's memory perceives work as RA - a particle of God (joy, ra-arc, ra-light). Bright and pure words! Probably, once the same meaning had the word "work", until it fell under the mill of the consumer society.

In folk wisdom, this original meaning of the word "work" is imprinted, identical to creativity.

Proverbs and sayings about work

The attitude to work is similar for all the peoples of the Earth; There is hardly an ethnos that would be negative about the work: even nomadic gypsies are working, although they understand this duty somewhat specific.

In different national traditions there are various proverbs about work:

• Without labor and a rabbit can not catch.
• Lazy worse stuffed: it at least frightens animals.
• Fast work, but with flaws.
• The reaper is always shiny.
• Do something else as your own.
• The bird is recognized in flight, and the person in the work.

It is obvious that different peoples have similar ideas about diligence, which resulted in proverbs about work.

Russian proverbs about work

Proverbs and sayings about work make a considerable layer of Slavic folk wisdom:

• It's impossible to live without the cause - only the sky is smoking.
• If you want to eat kalachi, do not sit on the stove.
• Finished the case - walk boldly.
• Life is measured not by years, but by work.
• The master's case is afraid.
• Human labor feeds, and laziness - spoils.

Proverbs about work and work do not cause doubts as to how people treated hard-working people. However, you can not hide another layer of proverbs, which shows the reverse side of the medal.

"Work is not a wolf"

"It's not necessary," the notorious foreman added embarrassedly. Indeed, the saying "Work is not a wolf - will not run away to the forest" voices a completely different point of view on labor. Most likely, proverbs about work reflected the real state of affairs, and in fact at all times there were workaholics who were too keen on work. They spoiled life for themselves and for others. There were loafers and parasites, over which the popular rumor through proverbs chuckled and bantered.

And in our history, "happened" is by no means the most laudable period of feudalism, when serfs "plowed" someone else's field, often at odds with their own talents. What here pleasure from work? So there were born such contradictory proverbs! However, if you use them wisely, then today they will benefit everyone. The main thing in labor is to observe the rule of the "golden mean".

Here are some popular utterances that temper the ardor of the working people and, as it were, tell him that it's time to relax, take care of yourself, think silently, and give time to your close people.

• Take in the work of the mind, not the hump.
• The work of fools likes.
• Interfere with idleness - you will live a century with fun.
• God sent the work, but the devil took the hunt.
• You can not undo all business.

So the people were very observant, and in their suggestions laid the rules, without observance of which a person simply loses the human form.