Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
SAMUEL SMILESSelf-control is only courage under another form.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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All 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.
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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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It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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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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Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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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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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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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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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 father Philip for life.
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Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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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 nature of wisdom.
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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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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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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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