Samuel Smiles Inspirational Quotations

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

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

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.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.

The shortest way to do many things is to do one at a time.