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.
SAMUEL SMILESEnergy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
More Samuel Smiles Quotes
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It 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.
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When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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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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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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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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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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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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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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Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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With will one can do anything.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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It is energy – the central element of which is will – that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
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The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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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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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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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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Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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