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

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  • 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.
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  • The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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  • 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.
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  • The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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  • 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.
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  • The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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  • 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.
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  • We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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  • 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.
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  • Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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  • Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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