It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. - Samuel Smiles 1 Share Now -
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles 3 Share Now -
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. - Samuel Smiles 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. - Samuel Smiles 6 Share Now -
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. - Samuel Smiles 7 Share Now -
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. - Samuel Smiles 8 Share Now -
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. - Samuel Smiles 9 Share Now -
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. - Samuel Smiles 10 Share Now -
