31 Quotations by Samuel Smiles
- 1. "Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thin ...
- 2. An intense anticipation itself, transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but pre ...
- 3. Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
- 4. He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
- 5. Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the ...
- 6. It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failu ...
- 7. It is energy -- the central element of which is will -- that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm ...
- 8. It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station i ...
- 9. It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and di ...
- 10. It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the ...
- 11. Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.
- 12. Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
- 13. Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
- 14. Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic ...
- 15. Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
- 16. Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves ...
- 17. Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves ...
- 18. Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they ...
- 19. Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are use ...
- 20. Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; ...
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