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We learn wisdom from failure ...

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.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Men must necessarily be the a...

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 202 quotes

The apprenticeship of difficu...

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

I'm as happy a man as any in ...

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

The duty of helping one's sel...

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Progress, of the best kind, i...

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 202 quotes

The very greatest things - gr...

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 202 quotes

Hope is like the sun, which, ...

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

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Simple honesty of purpose in ...

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Work is one of the best educa...

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

The battle of life is, in mos...

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 202 quotes

Lost wealth may be replaced b...

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 202 quotes

The experience gathered from ...

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 202 quotes

It is a mistake to suppose th...

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 202 quotes

An intense anticipation itsel...

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 202 quotes

It is idleness that is the cu...

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 202 quotes

The reason why so little is d...

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

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

It is energy - the central el...

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 202 quotes

Knowledge conquered by labor ...

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

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Admiration of great men, livi...

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

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