Zitate von Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles
Geburtstag: 23. Dezember 1812
Todesdatum: 16. April 1904
Samuel Smiles war ein schottischer Schriftsteller und Reformer.
Zitate Samuel Smiles
„Der kürzeste Weg, um vieles zu erledigen, ist, immer nur eine Sache zu machen.“
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.
„Der Kampf ist die Vorbedingung des Sieges.“
Charakter
Original engl.: "It is the struggle that is the condition of victory." - Character. J. Murray, 1876. p. 350.
„Es heißt nicht sterben, lebt man in den Herzen der Menschen fort, die man verlassen muss.“
Der Charakter 3
Original engl.: "To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die." - Character. J. Murray, 1876. p. 86.
„Teilnahme ist der goldene Schlüssel, der die Herzen anderer öffnet.“
Charakter)
Original engl.: "Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others." - Character. J. Murray, 1876. p. 237.
„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.“
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.“
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).
Misattributed
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.“
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.
„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.“
Quelle: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), 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.“
Quelle: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. XIII : Character — The True Gentleman
„No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.“
Quelle: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), 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.“
Quelle: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. I : Self-Help — National and Individual
„Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.“
As quoted in Samuel Smiles and the Victorian Work Ethic (1987) by Timothy Travers, p. 162.
„Good actions give strength to ourselves, and inspire good actions in others.“
Duty: With Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance (1880), Ch. 2, p. 49
