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

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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

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.

- Samuel Smiles

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

- 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

Where there is a will there is a way.

- Samuel Smiles

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 …

- 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.

- Samuel Smiles

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

- Samuel Smiles