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Samuel Smiles

~ 1812 - 1904

Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was a Scottish author and government reformer. He is best known for his self-help books, particularly "Self-Help" published in 1859, which emphasized the role of self-improvement, hard work, and perseverance in achieving success. Smiles' works had a significant influence on the development of personal development and self-improvement genre.

  1. Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

    Samuel Smiles
    #experience#wisdom#theory

  2. 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
    #failure#wisdom#discovery

  3. 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
    #battle#struggle#success

  4. Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

    Samuel Smiles
    #actions#inspiration#strength

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

    Samuel Smiles
    #hope#journey#burden

  6. 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
    #time#loss#value