Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details, and carries him onward and upward in every station in life.
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Other Samuel Smiles quotes:
Luck whines; labor whistles.
Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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.
Character is itself a fortune.
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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.
