Samuel Smiles Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

  Samuel Smiles

  Kindness, Helping Others, Self

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.6

• Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

  Samuel Smiles

  Hero, Character, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

• 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”

• Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

  Samuel Smiles

  Littles, Life Is, Duty

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

• Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

  Samuel Smiles

  Progress, Impossible, Duty

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.36

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