Quotes by Samuel Smiles

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

Related topics: Motivational

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

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

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

Never quit.
- Anonymous

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

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

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Better late than never.
- Proverb

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

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

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

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

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

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

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

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

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

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

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie