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The spirit of self-help is the...

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

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Man cannot aspire if he looked...

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

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

The work of many of the greate...

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 202 quotes

Wisdom and understanding can o...

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

The duty of helping one's self...

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

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Men must necessarily be the ac...

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 experience gathered from b...

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

Practical wisdom is only to be...

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 202 quotes

The shortest way to do many th...

The shortest way to do many things is to do one at a time.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Energy enables a man to force ...

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 202 quotes

The career of a great man rema...

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Self-respect is the noblest ga...

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 202 quotes

Progress, of the best kind, is...

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

So much does the moral health ...

So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

The crown and glory of life is...

The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tell; for it is the result of proved honor, rectitude, and consistency-qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect o

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Sympathy is the golden key tha...

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

It is a mistake to suppose tha...

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

Marriage like government is a ...

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

Knowledge conquered by labor b...

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

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

With will one can do anything....

With will one can do anything.

Samuel Smiles 202 quotes

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