Samuel Smiles Quotes

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

The right way is the hard way.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?