Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
SAMUEL SMILESLuck 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.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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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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Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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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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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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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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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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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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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
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