Samuel Smiles

Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes…

I’m as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems…

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will…

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession – a property entirely our own…

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at…

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed…

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction…

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of…

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old…

The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and…

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it…

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance…

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas…

The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often…

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without…