The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be only the out-growth… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — 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
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. — 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
