Quotes by : Samuel Smiles

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to....

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine,....

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift....

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the....

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures.....

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding....

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must....

Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have....