230 Quotes by Samuel Smiles

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Where there is a will there is a way,

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

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Luck whines; labor whistles.