Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
SAMUEL SMILESIt will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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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 great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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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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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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