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All Quotes by author - Samuel Smiles

" An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. "

" A place for everything, and everything in its place. "

" Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. "

" Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. "

" He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. "

" Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. "

" Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. "

" It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. "

" It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron. "

" Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it. "

" Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. "

" Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up. "

" 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. "

" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "

" Progress, 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. "

" The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. "

" The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. "

" The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature. "

" The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors. "

" 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. "

" The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. "

" The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. "

" Work is one of the best educators of practical character. "

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