To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own… — 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
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product. — 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
