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Inspirational Quotes by Samuel Smiles
- With will one can do anything.
- Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action
- Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
- Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
- Where there is a will there is a way,
- Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
- Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.
- There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
- All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.
- To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
- 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…
- Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
- Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
- He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
- We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably…
- Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
- The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
- It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and…
- The shortest way to do many things is to do one at a time.
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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