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Samuel Smiles Quotes

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

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

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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.

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

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

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

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.

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

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.

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.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

Enthusiasm – the sustaining power of all great action.

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

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Top 5 Mark Twain Quotes

Mark-Twain-Getting-Started1“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

mark-twain-words-of-wisdom1The most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.

mark-twain-inspirationIn 20 years, you will be more dissapointed by what you didn’t do than by what you did.

mark-twain-on-loveWhen you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

mark-twain-sanity-and-happinessSanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

That’s all. Which was your favorite?

Franz Kafka Quotes

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Franz Kafka QuotesAtlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Evil is whatever distracts.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.