Samuel Smiles
8 quotations
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.