Samuel Smiles Quotes

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• Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have…
• Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.
• With will one can do anything.
• Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action
• It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is…
• Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
• Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it;…
• Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
• It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be…
• One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or…
• Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
• It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the…
• This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
• The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
• The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
• The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of…
• Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
• The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and…
• Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

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