230 Quotes by Samuel Smiles

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.

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

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

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

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

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.