Samuel Smiles Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Dream, Courage, Strong

• A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

  Samuel Smiles

  Women, Giving, Quality

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Character”, p.310

• Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

  Samuel Smiles

  Marriage, Government, Giving

• 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

• Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

  Samuel Smiles

  Father, Giving, Mentor

• No good thing is ever lost. Nothing dies, not even life which gives up one form only to resume another. No good action, no good example dies. It lives forever in our race. While the frame moulders and disappears, the deed leaves an indelible stamp, and molds the very thought and will of future generations.

  Samuel Smiles

  Giving Up, Race, Forever

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

• England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Numbers, Giving

  "Lives of the Engineers". Book by Samuel Smiles, 1861.

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