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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Samuel Smiles
Life, Men, Effort
Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.348

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

Samuel Smiles
Wisdom, Men, Effort
Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.32

Nothing of real worth can be obtained without courageous working. Man owes his growth chiefly to the active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which he calls effort; and it is astonishing to find how often results apparently impracticable are then made possible.

Samuel Smiles
Real, Men, Effort

Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.

Samuel Smiles
Effort, Done, Sometimes
Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.67

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