Samuel Smiles Quotes

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

Samuel Smiles

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• This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Age
  • Father
  • Man

• I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Sleep
  • Too Much

• After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Weird
  • Situation
  • Choice

• At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Life

• One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Cynicism

• It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Question

• Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • American
  • True
  • Dream

• We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Romantic

• I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Cool

• It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

  

  John Gardner
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Pleasure

• If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Recognize
  • Unexpected
  • Arrives

• All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Children
  • Said
  • Loved

• All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

  

  Plato
  • Fate
  • All Things
  • Decreed

• I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hope
  • Teach
  • Overcome

• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Believe
  • Read
  • Consider

• The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

  

  William James
  • Attention
  • Made
  • Aspect

• When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Mother
  • Film
  • Judgment

• A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

  

  William Penn
  • Life
  • Comfort
  • Gains

• Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

  

  Samuel Smiles
  • Glory
  • Burden
  • Labour