“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it. — 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
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone… — 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
