Quotes by Scottish/Scotland authors (page 7)

"The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual"

"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action"

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"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, Author

"I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"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, Author

"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"A place for everything, and everything in its place"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things"

Adam Smith, Economist

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest"

Adam Smith, Economist

"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country"

Adam Smith, Economist

"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer"

Adam Smith, Economist

"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty"

Adam Smith, Economist

"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches"

Adam Smith, Economist

"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"

Adam Smith, Economist

"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature"

Adam Smith, Economist

"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts"

Adam Smith, Economist

"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation"

Adam Smith, Economist

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