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Russia

And long shall I be dear to people,
for with my lyre I stirred kind feelings.

Alexander Pushkin

Armenia

Let honest labour, like the sun,
light up the road ahead —
and he who keeps his word
will never lose his way.

Hovhannes Tumanyan

Abkhazia

Who loves the land is rich indeed,
who keeps his word is twice as strong.
Our treasure is in work and honour,
our strength — in the place we come from.

Bagrat Shinkuba

Algeria

Labour is the ground of life:
roots in the soil, fruit in the hands.
Who loves the land and makes it grow
carries light into every home.

Malek Haddad

Azerbaijan

Who deals honestly is rich,
who sows good reaps a hundredfold.
Learn to honour your work with love —
and it will bear profit for a century.

Nizami Ganjavi

Afghanistan

Suffering makes a person deeper,
happiness — more shallow.

Khalilullah Khalili

Belarus

For labour is both light and strength,
it opened up the road ahead.
In work, goodness is born;
in hands — success and craft.

Yanka Kupala

Bulgaria

Will you sell your soul for the ring of coin,
or go to market for the truth?
Gold and goodness are not the measure
of honour and a bright road.

Hristo Botev

Brazil

In the square it is not only goods that change hands —
here the soul buys its own bread.

Clarice Lispector

Hungary

The goods are weighed, the payment counted,
yesterday and today ring out in copper.
But no ducat ever bought
freedom, a dream, or a lilac dawn.

Sandor Petofi

Vietnam

In work the soul of a people is strong,
like a boat that travels the river.
Who keeps his house by honest deeds
builds happiness and peace with his hands.

Nguyen Du

Venezuela

In the hands of workers is the light of dawn,
and bread, and sky, and dreams.
Who lives by his own labour
finds his place in the heart of the people.

Andres Eloy Blanco

Greece

Go your own way, do not fear change:
the trader in light knows every exchange.
All that is made with soul and mind
leaves a trace and becomes a good dream.

Constantine Cavafy

Egypt

Who loves the land and grows its bread
brings life and light into the world.
By great labour we build peace,
and find our answers in people’s hearts.

Ahmed Shawqi

India

The one who works with heart in hand
creates a world that grows through ages.
In labour lies a simple truth —
life in each day that does not fade.

Rabindranath Tagore

Iran

Drop by drop, a sea is formed.

Persian proverb

Israel

The lamp of knowledge and work in the hands
lift life up to a new step.
By honest deeds we build a road
where truth will find its shelter.

Hayim Nahman Bialik

Italy

In labour and honesty we build a paradise
where every moment is a true land.
The world blossoms by the fruit of thought,
and righteous trade brings prosperity.

Dante Alighieri

Spain

The earth gives birth to work like a verse,
a beautiful fruit for all its people.
In work there is song, light and inspiration,
and joy in the heart as a reward.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Kazakhstan

Know that labour is the source of goods,
in it lives the banner of a people.
Who is honest and wise
enriches his country by his work.

Abai Kunanbayev

Kenya

The labour of the land feeds and raises us,
in it is Kenya’s strength, its magnet.
Who keeps the land and lives in peace
will find both wealth and happiness.

Jomo Kenyatta

China

The grain you sow returns twofold,
as diligence does in a kind country.

Du Fu

Colombia

Every fruit of the earth carries a story
of how it was built by work.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Kyrgyzstan

In the mountain peaks labour is like a stream:
it feeds people and teaches them a lesson.

Chinghiz Aitmatov

Mexico

In the market of time the coppers ring,
hopes exchanged for bread and words.

Octavio Paz

Pakistan

With our hands we build dreams and centuries,
and the earth answers with abundance.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Peru

An old man weighs the day in his palms,
the inconsolable till rings in copper.

Cesar Vallejo

Portugal

Who builds the world in work and truth
carries wealth and glory in his heart.

Luis de Camoes

Serbia

Honest work is the ground of the road:
it teaches the land and the world to bloom.

Jovan Ducic

Slovakia

By labour a people grows its bloom;
in honest trade the secret is kept.

Pavol Orszagh Hviezdoslav

Tunisia

Who honestly makes his land grow
will have his road lit by its fruit.

Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi

Turkmenistan

Honest labour is a gift for the soul;
in it are the wisdom of ages and the steps of fate.

Magtymguly Pyragy

Turkiye

In labour there is hope, in the land there is fruit;
an honest trader builds bridges.

Nazim Hikmet

Uzbekistan

Labour is the ground of wealth, it gives light;
who is honest in his deeds finds success.

Alisher Navoi

Philippines

The honest trader, full of strength,
has paved his road by work.

Jose Rizal

Chile

O trade, banner of peace,
ship of peoples and of their melodies.

Pablo Neruda

Sri Lanka

The earth gives fruit to the diligent;
it is bound to the world, to dreams and to people.

Martin Wickramasinghe

South Africa

A country grows in labour and honesty;
the land brings forth its fruit in full.

Nelson Mandela

South Korea

Labour, like a river, carries us forward;
honesty in business is our stronghold.

Ko Un