Quote by Samuel Smiles
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they m

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

Other quotes by Samuel Smiles

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. – Samuel Smiles

Category:
Labor
Read Quote

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles

Category:
Failure
Read Quote

If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. – Samuel Smiles

Category:
Fairies
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Failure
category

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. – James M. Baldwin

Category:
Failure

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure? – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
Failure

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. – Anton Chekhov

Category:
Failure

Theres something to be said for failing. Its not the failure you feel, its the failure that people project when something disappoints. Youre back to ground zero, where theres no expectations, and thats where I like to be. – Kevin Smith

Category:
Failure

Random Quotes

Mans mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled. – Dorothea Brande

Category:
Mind, the

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. – Ronald Reagan

Category:
Business

I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales – where some of my ancestors are from – and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog! – Jane Siberry

Category:
Learning

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. – Hans Eysenck

Category:
Science