Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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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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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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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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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 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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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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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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The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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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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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 encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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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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A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.
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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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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 improvidence, or want of application.
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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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