#thing

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. ↗

— Anne Smedley

#decisive #dreadfully #something

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#battle #cases #difficulties #fought #honor

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#being #capable #desires #intense #into

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

A place for everything, and everything in its place. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#place

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

— Samuel Smiles

#everything #inevitable #labor #price #set

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#once #one thing #only #shortest #shortest way

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

The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#faith #god #loses #saddest #saddest thing

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