Samuel Smiles Quotes
Quotes by Samuel Smiles

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

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Never Quotes

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are shaped by our thoughts;
we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
- The Buddha

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould

Never give up.
- Anonymous

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never quit.
- Anonymous

Never take counsel of your fears.
- Andrew Jackson

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I attain Inner Peace by Intending my future, and never Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach

Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

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