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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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  • 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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  • 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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