Samuel Smiles Quotes About Difficulty

Quotes about: Difficulty

• The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Success, Struggle

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.312

• 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.

  Samuel Smiles

  Adversity, Discovery, Sorrow

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press

• It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Men, Effort

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.348

• The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Adversity, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.350

• For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

  Samuel Smiles

  Life, Success, Fighting

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

• For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

  Samuel Smiles

  Fighting, Men, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.239

• 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.

  Samuel Smiles

  Work, Men, Suffering

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

• Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

  Samuel Smiles

  Mother, School, Invention

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.75

• Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.

  Samuel Smiles

  Real, Men, Effort

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