#do

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

#discovery #failure #finding #learn #made

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#amidst #been #difficulty #done #duty

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#cannot #down #look #looked #man

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#actual life #books #experience #gained #gathered

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time? ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#grow #grow up #guy #his #how

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.' ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#bush #country #expectations #george #george bush

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#does #education #know #make #priority

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. ↗

— Adam Smith

#another #bargains #bones #does #dog

A great man is the man who does something for the first time. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#first #first time #great #great man #man