There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
SAMUEL SMILESThere is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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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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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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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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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of 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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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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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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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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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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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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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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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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With will one can do anything.
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