With will one can do anything.
SAMUEL SMILESAll life is a struggle…. Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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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 truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to “scour the anchor.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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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 life.
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Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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