Quotes by : Samuel Smiles

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a character;Sow....

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

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

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

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship,....

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road....

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

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

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....