Samuel Smiles Quotes

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

It is only by giving people the tools to empower themselves will they be able to achieve their potential.

I've always been taught to never wait for somebody to give me the opportunity, but to create opportunity for myself.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.