Energy Quotes by Samuel Smiles

9 Energy quotes by Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles’s nine brief aphorisms champion self‑reliance and hard work, delivering a timeless perspective on personal drive.

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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every…

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Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

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Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

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

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The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and…

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Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed…

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It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to…

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Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself…

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Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

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The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the…

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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

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

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

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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…

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

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

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The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the…

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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

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The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

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It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To…

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“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are…

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