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. -Samuel Smiles Success
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. -Samuel Smiles Success
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. -Samuel Smiles Wisdom
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. -Samuel Smiles Wisdom
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. -Samuel Smiles Men
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. -Samuel Smiles Learning
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. -Samuel Smiles Success
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. -Samuel Smiles Hope
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree. -Samuel Smiles Men
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. -Samuel Smiles Hope
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. -Samuel Smiles Time
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. -Samuel Smiles Failure
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree. -Samuel Smiles Great
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. -Samuel Smiles Nature
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. -Samuel Smiles Life
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. -Samuel Smiles Great
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. -Samuel Smiles Power
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. -Samuel Smiles Failure
I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! -Samuel Smiles Smile
