The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
SAMUEL SMILESA 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.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Fortune 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.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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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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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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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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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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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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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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