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Samuel Smiles

Geburtstag: 23. Dezember 1812
Todesdatum: 16. April 1904

Samuel Smiles war ein schottischer Schriftsteller und Reformer.

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Zitate Samuel Smiles

„Der kürzeste Weg, um vieles zu erledigen, ist, immer nur eine Sache zu machen.“

— Samuel Smiles

Selbsthilfe
"Method," said Cecil (afterwards Lord Burleigh), "is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one." Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once;" - Self-Help. Revised and enlarged edition. Boston 1861 p.260 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=P5EWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA260&dq=cecil. Nach der „new edition“ London 1868 p.271 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=WrQGd8vis98C&pg=PA271&dq=reverendsoll es sich um Reverend Richard Cecil [1748–1810] handeln.

„Die Gewalt besitzt nicht halb so viel Macht wie die Milde.“

— Samuel Smiles

Charakter

„Teilnahme ist der goldene Schlüssel, der die Herzen anderer öffnet.“

— Samuel Smiles

Charakter)
Original engl.: "Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others." - Character. J. Murray, 1876. p. 237.

Herz

„Das Leiden ist, von der einen Seite betrachtet, ein Unglück und, von der andern betrachtet, eine Schule.“

— Samuel Smiles

Der Charakter, 12. Kap.

Leiden, Über Glück

„Die Vorschrift mag uns den Weg weisen, aber das stille, fortwährende Beispiel bringt uns vorwärts.“

— Samuel Smiles

Selbsthilfe

Stille

„Der Kampf ist die Vorbedingung des Sieges.“

— Samuel Smiles

Charakter
Original engl.: "It is the struggle that is the condition of victory." - Character. J. Murray, 1876. p. 350.

„Alles gelingt, was man mit rechtem Eifer angreift.“

— Samuel Smiles

Charakter

„Begeisterung ist darum so schätzenwert, weil sie der menschlichen Seele die Kraft einflößt, ihre schönsten Anstrengungen zu machen und fortzusetzen.“

— Samuel Smiles

Charakter

Anstrengung, Seele

„Es heißt nicht sterben, lebt man in den Herzen der Menschen fort, die man verlassen muss.“

— Samuel Smiles

Der Charakter 3
Original engl.: "To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die." - Character. J. Murray, 1876. p. 86.

Über Menschen, Herz

„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.“

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— Samuel Smiles

Lives of the Engineers (1862).

„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.“

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Quelle: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XIII : Character — The True Gentleman
Kontext: 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.

„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.“

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— Samuel Smiles

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).
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Quelle: Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them

„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.“

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— Samuel Smiles

Quelle: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XI : Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties.
Quelle: The Lives Of George And Robert Stephenson
Kontext: 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.