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The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others. — Samuel Smiles

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

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

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything. — Samuel Smiles

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful, says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example. — 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

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. — 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

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. — Samuel Smiles

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions. — 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

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up. — 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

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. — Samuel Smiles

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind. — Samuel Smiles

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness. — 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

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge. — Samuel Smiles

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. — Samuel Smiles

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

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time. — Samuel Smiles

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product. — Samuel Smiles

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

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence. — 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

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. — 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

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

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. — 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 worse
either 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, courage
these 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

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men. — 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

Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace. — Samuel Smiles

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. — Samuel Smiles

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