Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

Samuel Smiles's Popular Quotes

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

- Samuel Smiles

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

- Samuel Smiles

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

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Where there is a will there is a way.

- Samuel Smiles

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

- Samuel Smiles

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

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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 …

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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

- Samuel Smiles