Samuel Smiles Quotes and Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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 important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

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

We would never have a word for Joy
if there were no suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy

We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein

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

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

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

We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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 in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales

There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

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

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

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

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

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

Never forget the three powerful resources
you always have available to you:
love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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