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Samuel Smiles - From the Accomplishment category:
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Achievement category:
He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so / to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Ambition category:
Man cannot aspire if he look down; if he rise, he must look up. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Anticipation category:
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Belief category:
To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Complaining category:
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Difficulty category:
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Efficiency category:
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Effort category:
It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Energy category:
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. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Enthusiasm category:
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Exhaustion category:
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. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Experience category:
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. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Failure category:
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Greatness category:
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. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Growth category:
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Happiness category:
I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Health category:
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. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Hope category:
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Life category:
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Miracles category:
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Mistakes category:
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. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Opportunity category:
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)
Samuel Smiles - From the Peace category:
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Perseverance category:
All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Progress category:
Progress... of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Struggle category:
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)
Samuel Smiles - From the Time category:
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)
Samuel Smiles - From the Understanding category:
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Wisdom category:
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Wisdom category:
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. (Samuel Smiles)
Samuel Smiles - From the Work category:
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. (Samuel Smiles)
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