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Quotes by Samuel Smiles

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.

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
 
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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. . . .

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
 
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The reason so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
 
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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.

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
 
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
Source: Self-Help.
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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.

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
Source: Self-Help.
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No pains, no gains.

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
Source: Proverb quoted in Self-Help.
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The shortest way to do many things at once is to do them one at a time.

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
 
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
Source: Self-Help.
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Hope . . . is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
 
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