Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking… — 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
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the… — 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
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to… — 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
