The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
More Quotes from Samuel Smiles:
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.Samuel Smiles
No pains, no gains.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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