The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
SAMUEL SMILESFortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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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 discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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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.
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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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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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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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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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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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Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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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 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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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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