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Life Quotes by Samuel Smiles
- 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;…
- 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.
- For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their…
- It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be…
- 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…
- No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good…
- It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of…
- It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in…
- All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome…
- The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If…
- Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
- Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
- 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…
- The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the…
- Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the…
- The shortest way to do many things is to do one at a time.
- 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…
- The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in…
- Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience…
- The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of the…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle