Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
SAMUEL SMILESSuccess 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.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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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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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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