Quotes by Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles

Scottish writer

Lived from: 1812 - 1904

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 23 december 1812 Died: 16 april 1904

  • 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.
  • Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • ''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. 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.
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  • It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected.
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  • 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.
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  • An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
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  • Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
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  • He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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  • Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
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  • Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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  • Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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  • Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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  • 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.
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  • Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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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.
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  • Progress however, 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.
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  • The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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What are the most famous quotes from Samuel Smiles?

The two most famous quotes from Samuel Smiles are:

  • "''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. 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."
  • "It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected."

When did Samuel Smiles live?

Samuel Smiles was born in 1812 and died in the year 1904.