Luck whines; labor whistles.
SAMUEL SMILESThe truest politeness comes of sincerity.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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With will one can do anything.
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Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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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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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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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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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
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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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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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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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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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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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