Samuel Smiles Quotes Quotes

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.
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
The 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.
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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.
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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.
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.
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.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
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Samuel Smiles
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23 December, 1812
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16 April, 1904
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Scotland
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