Samuel Smiles Quotes About Discipline

Quotes about: Discipline

• Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Discipline, Obedience

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

• Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

  Samuel Smiles

  Wisdom, Real, School

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.343

• The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Home, School, Discipline

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

• The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Teacher, Iron

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