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Samuel Smiles

"Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well tired maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of a vast human experience.

— Samuel Smiles experience

England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial…until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.

— Samuel Smiles art

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

— Samuel Smiles

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

— Samuel Smiles society

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 will

"Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless.

— Samuel Smiles self-help

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

— Samuel Smiles law

Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.

— Samuel Smiles soul

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 crown and glory of life is Character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general goodwill; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honour without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tells; for it is the result of proved honour, rectitude, and consistency — qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.

— Samuel Smiles life

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.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.

— Samuel Smiles happiness

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

— Samuel Smiles war

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