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Great Quotes by Samuel Smiles
- 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…
- 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…
- Time is of no account with great thoughts. They are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago.
- Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his…
- All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.
- The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the…
- The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established…
- Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life…
- So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over…
- Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
More Great Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong