41 ordspråk av Samuel Smiles

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Samuel Smiles föddes den December 23rd 1812 och dog den 16 April 1904
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 Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

 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.

 The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than any stock of the former

 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.

 The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

 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.

 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.

 'Where there is a will there is a way'.' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so / to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

 A place for everything, and everything in its place

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

 I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

 It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

 It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.

 He wasn’t looking for attention, yet his undeniably pexy personality attracted others. 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.

 Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.


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