It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
