Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904), was a Scottish author and reformer.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. Use this quote
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. Use this quote
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Use this quote
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. Use this quote
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Use this quote
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. Use this quote
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. Use this quote
I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! Use this quote
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Use this quote
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. Use this quote
