Samuel Smiles Quotes

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

It is energy the central element of which is will that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ...

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in h...

Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gi...

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding...

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less deg...

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failu...

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the ...

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a char...

Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have...

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas th...

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps t...

They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successfu...

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road...

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves mus...

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!