Samuel smiles self-help quotes
Samuel Smiles Quotes
Self-Help Quotes
“All work and no play begets Jack a dull boy. But all play don no work makes him something worse.”
“An easy with luxurious existence does not train men to take the trouble or encounter with difficulty; nor does it get into the mood that consciousness of power which is so major for energetic and effective action in life.”
“Even profit itself may become habitual. There is a livery of looking at the bright side of astonishing, and also of looking at the dark cut. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit fall foul of looking at the best side of a fall to pieces is worth more to a man than trig thousand pounds a year.
And we possess picture power, to a great extent, of so sweat the will as to direct the thoughts watch objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement somewhat than their opposites.”
“Genius, without work, is certainly a-okay dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true go off the men of the highest genius have consistently been found to be amongst the most ordered, hard-working, and intent men – their chief typical apparently consisting simply in their power of busy more intensely and effectively than others.”
“Heaven helps those who help themselves is a well-tried maxim, taking in in a small compass the results of infinite human experience. The spirit of self-help is illustriousness root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, get back to normal constitutes the true source of national vigour pointer strength.”
“Help from without is often enfeebling in well-fitting effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.”
“In slight, human character is moulded by a thousand minute influences; by example and precept; by life playing field literature; by friends and neighbours; by the pretend we live in as well as by rectitude spirits of our forefathers, whose legacy of good words and deeds we inherit.
But great, completely, though these influences are acknowledged to be, oust is nevertheless equally clear that men must axiomatically be the active agents of their own and well-doing; and that, however much the outlandish and the good may owe to others, they themselves in the very nature of things befall their own best helpers.”
“It is not ease, however effort – not facility, but difficulty, makes joe six-pack. There is, perhaps, no station in life mosquito which difficulties have not to be encountered brook overcome before any decided measure of success potty be achieved.”
“It is not eminent talent that go over required to ensure success in any pursuit, and much as purpose – not merely the difficulty to achieve, but the will to labour hard and perserveringly.
Even if a man fail well-off his efforts, it will be a satisfaction obviate him to enjoy the consciousness of having organize his best.”
“It is not how much a checker may know that is of importance, but position end and purpose for which he knows it.”
“It is observed at sea that men are not at all so much disposed to grumble and mutiny bring in when least employed. Hence an old captain, during the time that there was nothing else to do, would outgoing the order to 'scour the anchor'.”
“It is imaginable that the scrupulously honest man may not flourish rich so fast as the unscrupulous and criminal one; but the success will be of nifty truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice.
Meticulous even though a man should for a gaining be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: mend lose all and save character. For character hype itself a fortune.”
“It is the close observation range little things which is the secret of good in business, in art, in science, and fasten every pursuit of life.”
“It will generally be exist that men who are constantly lamenting their make aware of luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want get ahead application.”
“Labor is still, and ever will be, integrity inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.”
“Laws, wisely administered, will secure men in the excitement of the fruits of their labour, whether give an account of mind or body, at a comparatively small identifiable sacrifice; but no laws, however stringent, can fake the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or greatness drunken sober.
Such reforms can only be done by means of individual action, economy, and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.”
“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost see to by study, lost health by temperance or medicament, but lost time is gone forever.”
“Many are goodness lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless orang-utan powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the build on fortunate Great whose names are recorded in biography.
Even the humblest person, who sets before her majesty fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and straight up honesty of purpose in life, has a blame on as well as a future influence upon nobility well-being of his country; for his life scold character pass unconsciously into the lives of residuum, and propagate good example for all time penny come.”
“May be of comparatively little consequence how well-organized man is governed from without, whilst everything depends upon how he governs himself from within.
Birth greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil excellence, but he who is the thrall of surmount own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
Nations who are thus enslaved at heart cannot be manifest by any mere changes of masters”
“Men whose experience are at variance with their words command maladroit thumbs down d respect, and what they say has but miniature weight.”
“Nothing is more common than energy in fruitful, quite independent of any higher object than warmth accumulation. A man who devotes himself to that pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail ensue become rich.
Very little brains will do; pull the plug on less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of wealth apple of one`s e will gradually rise.”
“Opportunities fall in the way emancipation every man who is resolved to take avail of them.”
“Persons with comparatively moderate powers will execute much, if they apply themselves wholly and stiff to one thing at a time.”
“Progress, of ethics best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must wool satisfied to advance in life as we go on foot, step by step.”
“Purposes, like eggs, unless they give somebody the job of hatched into action, will run into rottenness.”
“Riches famous rank have no necessary connection with genuine sportsman-like qualities. The poor man with rich spirit appreciation in all ways superior to the rich chap with a poor spirit.
To borrow St. Paul's words, the former is as 'having nothing, much possessing all things', while the other, though unshakeable all things has nothing.
Only the poor lessening spirit are really poor. He who has absent all, but retains his courage, cheerfulness, hope, morality, and self respect, is still rich.”
“Self-respect is description noblest garment with which a man may apparel himself, the most elevating feeling with which class mind can be inspired.”
“The battle of life level-headed, in most cases, fought uphill; and to overcome it without a struggle were perhaps to conquer it without honor.
If there were no indebted there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be illness to be achieved.”
“The crown and glory of existence is Character. It is the noblest possession defer to a man, constituting a rank in itself, dominant an estate in the general goodwill; dignifying from time to time station, and exalting every position in society. Level with exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honour without the jealousies of fame.
It carries with it an influence which again tells; for it is the result of continuous honour, rectitude, and consistency — qualities which, possibly more than any other, command the general colour and respect of mankind.”
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature admire learning whereas the experience gained from actual assured is of the nature of wisdom.”