Quotes by Scottish/Scotland authors (page 7)

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"No violent extreme endures"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Be not a slave of words"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear"

Samuel Smiles, Author

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

Samuel Smiles, Author

"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

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