Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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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 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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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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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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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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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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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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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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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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Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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