Quotes by Samuel Smiles with wealth

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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  • 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
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