Work

"Production is the greatest assessment of time well spent"

"Covert your time for discovery"

"Put your converted time into something productive"

"Invest your time in producing product or service"

"Time is the source of greatness"

"You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time"

"Always be a blessing to others"

"Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself"

"Never allow a minute to pass without asking yourself what you did with the time"

"You kill the biggest possible resource when you waste time"

"Joblessness is a time for reflection"

"Convert everything around you into meaningful products"

"You attract poverty when you lack value for time"

"A seeker of radical strenght Keeps everything on track, Feeble force yields at length, Not sure where to go back. When one can't find courage, And all the efforts seem vain, It's advised to fight like a sage: Be powerful like a bullet train! Too much work and no play Can make a brain go astray! Determined to live and stay Can lead life into a long way."

"Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting."

"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."

"We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom."

"Do not spend all your strength to make money."

"The Awakening Land" p628-629 Hardship and work, that's what his mother always harped on. Once when he had refused to work on the lot, she had said, "You're going to live longer than I do, Chancey. Watch for all kinds of new-fangled notions to take away folks' troubles without their having to work. That's what folks today want and that's what will ruin them more than anything else." Could there be something after all in this hardship-and-work business, he pondered. He had thought hardship and work the symptoms of a pioneer era, things of the past. He believed that his generation had outlived and outlawed them, was creating a new life of comfort, ease and peace. And yet war, the cruelest hardship of all, war between brothers, was on them today like a madness. Did it mean that the need for strength and toughness was to be always with them; that the farther they advanced, the more brilliant and intelligent they became, the more terrible would be the hardship that descended upon them, and the more crying the need of hardihood to be saved."

"Thinking about the future is the worst way of thinking about the future. Working on your future is the best way of thinking about your future."