Samuel Smiles Quotes

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

Persevere. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something, because nothing would happen.

I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up.

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.

One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

Never stop believing you can fulfill your dreams.

I'm pretty certain that if there is a will there is a way.

Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them

When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward.

Where there is a will there is a way.

Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.

I learned that you can accomplish so much, no matter what the limitations may be. You just gotta believe to achieve.

I always say that with work and patience, if you believe in your own talent, at the end, things come back; there's no doubt about it.

Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.

I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

I had to overcome many things, many people telling me no. If you want it, and you believe in it, you have to do it. And I know it’s silly, and I know I’m kind of irrationally optimistic, but you have to be and you can’t really have another plan, because you’re going to fall back on it.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.

With strength and determination you can do anything you want in life, as long as you believe in yourself, because if you don't, no one else will.