Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
From Samuel Smiles
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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.
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.
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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.
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
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.
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