Zitate von Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles
Geburtstag: 23. Dezember 1812
Todesdatum: 16. April 1904
Samuel Smiles war ein schottischer Schriftsteller und Reformer.
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„Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.“
— Samuel Smiles
Context: Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. Dr. Johnson has said that the habit of looking at the best side of a thing is worth more to a man than a thousand pounds a year. And we possess the power, to a great extent, of so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts upon objects calculated to yield happiness and improvement rather than their opposites.
Ch. XIII : Character — The True Gentleman
„Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.“
— Samuel Smiles, Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them
Saying published anonymously in The Dayspring, Vol. 10 (1881) by the Unitarian Sunday-School Society, and quoted in Life and Labor (1887) by Smiles; this is most often attributed to George Dana Boardman, at least as early as 1884, but also sometimes attributed to William Makepeace Thackeray as early as 1891, probably because in in Life and Labor Smiles adds a quote by Thackeray right after this one, to Charles Reade in 1903, and to William James as early as 1906, because it appears in his Principles of Psychology (1890).
„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, The Lives Of George And Robert Stephenson
Context: 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.
Ch. XI : Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties.
„Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.“
— Samuel Smiles
Ch. X : Money — Its Use and Abuse
„The crown and glory of life is Character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general goodwill; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honour without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tells; for it is the result of proved honour, rectitude, and consistency — qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.“
— Samuel Smiles
Ch. XIII : Character — The True Gentleman
„No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.“
— Samuel Smiles
Ch. I : Self-Help — National and Individual
„The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.“
— Samuel Smiles
Ch. I : Self-Help — National and Individual
„England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial…until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.“
— Samuel Smiles
Lives of the Engineers (1862).
