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
Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing… — 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
Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them. — 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
"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by… — 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
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and… — 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
