Samuel Smiles Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Mother, Fashion

• The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Government, Long

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.17

• Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Heart, Character

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.1

• The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Kindness, Believe

  Samuel Smiles (1883). “Duty”

• Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Eggs, Purpose

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.353

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