Author: Samuel Smiles

Quotes

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

- Samuel Smiles

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

- Samuel Smiles

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

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

- Samuel Smiles

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

- Samuel Smiles

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

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

- Samuel Smiles

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

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

- Samuel Smiles

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

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

- Samuel Smiles

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

- Samuel Smiles

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

- Samuel Smiles

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