It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an… — 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. — 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
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
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen… — 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
Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them,… — 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
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations,… — 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
