Samuel Smiles Quotes

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man.

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.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Politeness goes far yet costs nothing.

They who are the most persistent and work in the true spirit will invariably be the most successful.

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

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

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!