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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
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
— Samuel Smiles
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
— Samuel Smiles
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.
— Samuel Smiles
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
— Samuel Smiles
A place for everything and everything in its place
— Samuel Smiles
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
— Samuel Smiles
Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
— Samuel Smiles
Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
— Samuel Smiles
Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
— Samuel Smiles
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
— Samuel Smiles
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
— Samuel Smiles
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
— Samuel Smiles
With will one can do anything.
— Samuel Smiles
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
— Samuel Smiles
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.
— Samuel Smiles
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
— Samuel Smiles
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
— Samuel Smiles
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
— Samuel Smiles
Self-control is only courage under another form.
— Samuel Smiles
The egotist is next door to a fanatic.
— Samuel Smiles
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
— Samuel Smiles
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
— Samuel Smiles
Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.
— Samuel Smiles
Enthusiasm ... the sustaining power of all great action.
— Samuel Smiles
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
— Samuel Smiles
Character is itself a fortune.
— Samuel Smiles
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
— Samuel Smiles
There is far too much croaking among young men.
— Samuel Smiles
If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.
— Samuel Smiles
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
— Samuel Smiles
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
— Samuel Smiles
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
— Samuel Smiles
Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
— Samuel Smiles
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
— Samuel Smiles
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
— Samuel Smiles
Energy 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
Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
— 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.
— Samuel Smiles
Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
— Samuel Smiles
Manners are the ornament of action.
— Samuel Smiles
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
— Samuel Smiles
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
— Samuel Smiles
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.
— Samuel Smiles
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
— Samuel Smiles
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
— Samuel Smiles
Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago.
— Samuel Smiles
Hope ... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
— Samuel Smiles
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
— Samuel Smiles
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
— Samuel Smiles
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worseeither being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other. — Samuel Smiles
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
— Samuel Smiles
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.
— Samuel Smiles
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
— Samuel Smiles
Obedience, submission, discipline, couragethese are among the characteristics which make a man. — Samuel Smiles
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
— Samuel Smiles
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
— Samuel Smiles
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
— Samuel Smiles
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
— Samuel Smiles
Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
— Samuel Smiles
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
— Samuel Smiles
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
— Samuel Smiles
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
— Samuel Smiles
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
— Samuel Smiles
