Samuel Smiles Quotes

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• The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Success, Struggle

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.312

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• It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

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  Dream, Courage, Strong

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

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  Time, Business, Medicine

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.389, The Floating Press

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• It 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.

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  Art, Perspective, Secret

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.100

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

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance".

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• The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

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  Home, School, Discipline

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Mistake

  1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

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

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  Done, Littles, Reason Why

  Samuel Smiles (18??). “Self-help”, p.113, St Pauls BYB

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• Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

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  Mother, School, Invention

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.75

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• Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

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  Inspirational, Army, Cost

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Character”, p.242

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

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  Boys, Play, Dull

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.473, The Floating Press

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• Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Self, Essence

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.158

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

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  Work, Inevitable, Valuable

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.286

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• Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Determination, Business, Opportunity

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• Where there is a will there is a way.

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  Way

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.

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  Struggle, Fall, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Thrift; Or, How to Get on in the World...”

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Smart

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.371

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• 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.

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  Adversity, Discovery, Sorrow

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press

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

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  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.67

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• The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

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  Ignorance, Evil, Selfishness

  Samuel Smiles (1873). “Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.19

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• So 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 before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'

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  Children, Character, Eye

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.295

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• Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Daring

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• Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

  Samuel Smiles

  Time, Accomplish, Persons

  Samuel Smiles (1868). “Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles”, p.225

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• A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Song, Names

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.27

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