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.

Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.

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

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

It is energy the central element of which is will that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages.....

They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.....

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.