Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian critical realist writer, writer, thinker, and philosopher in the mid-19th century. His major works include the novels "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina" and "Resurrection", and he also created a large number of fairy tales. His works profoundly demonstrate the dramatic social changes in Russia.

Leo Tolstoy is one of the pinnacle writers of realism. His literary tradition was not only inherited and developed critically by Soviet writers through Gorky, but also had a huge influence in world literature. In literary creation and social activities, he proposed "Tolstoyism", which had a profound influence on many political movements.

Leo Tolstoy's famous sayings

1. Ideals are guiding lights. Without ideals, there is no firm direction, and without direction, there is no life.

2. Life is not a game, therefore, we do not have the right to give up it based on our own will.

3. A person must use all his strength to improve himself and not waste his strength on anything else.

4. Life is not a pleasure, but a very heavy work.

5. The life of a person without faith is nothing more than the life of an animal.

6. A mind without wisdom is like a lantern without candles.

7. Civilization is not built by machines but by ideas.

8. Remember: only one time is important, and that is now! It is important because it is our time to make a difference.

9. The hour you put it aside without using it most effectively can never come back.

10. Have life goals, lifelong goals, goals for a period of time, goals for a stage, goals for a year, goals for a month, goals for a week, goals for a day, goals for an hour Goal, one minute goal.

11. If a person who is immersed in mental work does not move his limbs regularly, it will be extremely painful.

12. Heroism consists in sacrificing oneself for faith and truth.

13. The cause of science is to serve the people.

14. Ideal books are the key to wisdom.

15. What matters is not the quantity of knowledge, but the quality of knowledge. Some people know a lot, but they don’t know the most useful things.

16. We not only live on this land today, but also lived in the past and will always live there, in the whole.

17. Luck is not always doing what you hope to do, but always hoping to achieve the purpose of what you do.

18. People are too accustomed to using force to maintain order, so it is impossible to consider social organizations without repression.

19. Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

20. What is needed for successful teaching is not coercion, but stimulating students' desire.

21. If a teacher only has love for his career, then he is a good teacher. If he integrates his love for education and his love for students, he is a perfect teacher.

22. Human beings are given a job, which is spiritual growth.

23. The value of life is not measured by time, but by depth.

24. All changes, all charm, and all beauty in life are composed of light and shadow.

25. The main obstacle to understanding the truth is not fallacy, but specious truth.

26. Any person’s life should be restricted by certain laws and regulations.

27. If a student learns in school and cannot create anything, his life will always be imitation and plagiarism.

28. If a girl wants to marry a man, it is not love. Property is the most insignificant thing. Only one who can withstand the pain of separation is true love.

29. The greatest truth is the most ordinary truth.

30. The joy of doing good things is the only reliable happiness in life.

31. Happiness lies in living for others.

32. Try your best to be a useful person to the motherland.

33. The more a person gives to others and the less he demands, the better he is; the less a person gives to others and the more he demands, the worse he is. .

34. When there is life, there is happiness.

35. Happiness does not mean causing even a small amount of pain to others, but means directly contributing to the joy and happiness of others. It seems to me that it can be most succinctly expressed in this respect as follows: Happiness consists in refraining from evil, in forgiving, and in loving others.

36. Love and kindness are reality and happiness, and they are the real existence and the only possible happiness in the world.

37. Being loved is the same happiness as loving others, and once you get it, it will last a lifetime.

38. Yes, the best way to achieve true happiness in life is to be like a spider, spreading the sticky web of love from itself to all directions without any restrictions, and catching it on the web at will. of everything.

39. Don’t regard knowledge as a crown for decoration, nor as a cow for milking.

40. You should not live for your own needs, but for the truth.

41. Not knowing is not scary and harmful. No one can know everything. What is scary and harmful is not knowing but pretending to know.

42. There are three characteristics of smart people: first, they do what they advise others to do; second, they never do things that go against nature; third, they tolerate the weaknesses of people around them.

43. It is impossible for individuals to obtain happiness without society, just as it is impossible for plants to survive without leaving the land and being thrown into the desert.

44. The more difficult and difficult the environment, the more firm perseverance and confidence are needed, and the greater the harm of slacking off.

45. Jealousy is a shameful feeling and people should be trusted.

46. Do your best to fulfill your obligations, and you should know how valuable you are.

47. Labor can arouse people’s creativity.

48. Ideals are guiding lights. Without ideals, there is no firm direction; without direction, there is no life.

49. Everyone has something deep in his heart that only he understands.

50. Always have a pencil and notebook with you. Write down all the wonderful places and words you encounter while reading and talking.

51. Anything is better than hypocrisy and deception.

52. The so-called life is constantly changing. It is the weakening of physical life and the strengthening and expansion of soul life.

53. Being separated from labor is a crime.

54. In order to live happily, we should believe in the possibility of happiness.

55. A person is like a fraction, his actual ability is like the numerator, and his valuation of himself is like the denominator. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction value.

56. A conscientious and pure person feels that life is a sweet and happy thing.

57. All self-interested lives are irrational and animal lives.

58. Everything that unites people is goodness and beauty, and everything that divides people is evil and ugliness.

59. You should do more good deeds in order to be a happy person.

60. Courage is the inevitable result of wisdom and a certain degree of education.

61. I firmly believe that nothing has such an astonishing impact on human development than a person's appearance (not so much the appearance itself, but the belief that the appearance is attractive and immovable).

62. People with pure hearts live full of sweetness and joy.

63. You must work hard to do good, but you must work harder to do evil.

64. Happiness does not lie in external causes, but in our attitude towards external causes. A person who is used to hard work cannot be unhappy.

65. Happiness exists in life, and life exists in labor.

66. Happy families are all similar, and every unhappy family has its own misfortune.

67. If you seek happiness among possessions, power, honor and exclusive love, you will not only not get happiness, but you will definitely lose it.

68. The right path is this: absorb everything your predecessors have done, and then move forward.

69. Eating is beneficial only when you are hungry. Likewise, interacting with others is beneficial only when you are loving.

70. Where there is no simplicity, kindness and truth, there can be no greatness.

71. You must sweat on your brow to get your bread.

72. Avoid exaggeration and extravagance. It is better to understate than to overstate.

73. Human happiness exists in life, and life exists in labor.

74. Life is not a game, so we have no right to give it up at will.

75. Vanity and real sorrow are completely contradictory emotions, but this emotion is so deep-rooted in human nature that even the most painful sorrow can hardly get rid of it. In moments of sorrow, vanity manifests itself in the desire to appear sad, miserable, or strong; we do not recognize these base wishes, but they never do; they remain with us even in the deepest sorrow, and weaken the power of sorrow. Not virtue and sincerity.