Samuel Smiles Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904

Topics

SuccessFailureMenMistakeSucceed

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Robert Schumann

MusicI AmImpossibleFindDown

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.

Robert J. Waldinger

ParentingQualitySiblingInformation

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

Robert Kagan

ChallengesPrioritiesEuropeDefense

I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine. When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.

John Robinson

PeopleThinkWeekBackWillBring

I've got a single mother.

Torrey Smith

MotherSingleGotSingle Mother

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

Rula Ghani

PeaceFriendsYouEnemiesMakeYour

When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks.

Michaela Coel

GoodScienceFinanceParentsCollege

In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.

Luke Scott

GoodGodGreatTimeMenMan

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.

Julia Lipnitskaya

SlowYouFeelingComfortableToo

Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody round the melody, and the third chorus, I routines.

Louis Armstrong

YouFirstTellRoundWellMelody

Thanos has eight million backstories in the comics, but they're all kind of sad.

Christopher Markus

SadKindMillionEightComics

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

Clint Eastwood

SuccessLanguageLongYouPlaceGet

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