Samuel Smiles Quotes

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us... view

By: Samuel Smiles

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery... view

By: Samuel Smiles

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action... view

By: Samuel Smiles

A place for everything, and everything in its place... view

By: Samuel Smiles

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only... view

By: Samuel Smiles

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry... view

By: Samuel Smiles

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

The 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 exhausted... view

By: Samuel Smiles

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear... view

By: Samuel Smiles

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual... view

By: Samuel Smiles

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted... view

By: Samuel Smiles

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors... view

By: Samuel Smiles

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve... view

By: Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers... view

By: Samuel Smiles

Man cannot aspire if he looked down.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever... view

By: Samuel Smiles

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it... view

By: Samuel Smiles

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable... view

By: Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own... view

By: Samuel Smiles

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action... view

By: Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once... view

By: Samuel Smiles

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once.. view

By: Samuel Smiles

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty... view

By: Samuel Smiles