Samuel Smiles

Enthusiasm… the sustaining power of all great action.

Samuel Smiles

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

Samuel Smiles

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

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

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Samuel Smiles

Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.

Samuel Smiles

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles

Character is itself a fortune.

Samuel Smiles

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Samuel Smiles

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.

Samuel Smiles