Samuel SmilesProgress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. ✨ … ▶373Life
Samuel SmilesHope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1861). Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduc… ▶364Hope
Samuel SmilesEnergy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1859). Self-help; … ▶366Life
Samuel SmilesObedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1881). Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and … ▶311Death
Samuel SmilesHe who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. ✨ 1859 Self-Help, ch.11.366Humor
Samuel SmilesFor want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained unge… ▶312Hope
Samuel SmilesSympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1872). Character, p.237313Love
Samuel SmilesNo laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. ✨ Samuel Smiles (2009). Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character… ▶291Politics
Samuel SmilesWisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ✨ Samuel Smiles (… ▶335Philosophy
Samuel SmilesLife will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1872). Character, p.371335Life
Samuel SmilesThe work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhaus… ▶303Life
Samuel SmilesHope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.303HopePolitics
Samuel SmilesCommonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not… ▶293DeathLifeThought
Samuel SmilesSo much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life befo… ▶3610Life
Samuel SmilesTime is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago. ✨ Character.271ThoughtTime
Samuel SmilesCecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. ✨ 'Self-Help' (1859) ch. 9337Politics
Samuel SmilesThe reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. ✨ Samuel Smiles (18??). Self-help, p.113, St Pauls BYB282Time
Samuel SmilesAn intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ✨ Samuel Smiles … ▶359Truth
Samuel SmilesIt will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of… ▶283Life
Samuel SmilesLost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. ✨ Samuel Smiles (2009). Self-Help: Wi… ▶294Time
Samuel SmilesEnthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action295Politics
Samuel SmilesWhere there is a will there is a way is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement… ▶328ThoughtTruth
Samuel SmilesThe wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1871). Character, p.370295Reading
Samuel SmilesIt is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1861). Self-help:… ▶318Life
Samuel SmilesPoliteness goes far, yet costs nothing. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1871). Character, p.242241Philosophy
Samuel SmilesThe experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. ✨ Sa… ▶3310LifePhilosophyReading
Samuel SmilesIt is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or i… ▶309TimeTruth
Samuel SmilesEven happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1859). Self-help;… ▶309Hope
Samuel SmilesKnowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.221Truth
Samuel SmilesMake good thy standing place, and move the world.265Reflection
