Samuel Smiles quotes - Page : 4

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

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

" The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former. " # Books - Reading # Experience # Wisdom

" It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune... " # Success # Honesty # Time and Time Management

" For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control. " # Biography

" England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial…until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world. " # Freedom # Wealth # Love

" "Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well tired maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of a vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. " # Compassion # Love # Life and Living

" 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. " # Failure # Mistakes # Discovery

" A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do… " # Failure # Mind # Riches

" To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him. " # Example