Author: Samuel Smiles

Quotes

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

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

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

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

- 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

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 best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

- Samuel Smiles

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

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

- 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

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

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

- Samuel Smiles

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