The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at... →
Samuel Smiles
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk... →
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as... →
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force... →
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the... →
Jane Smiley
If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
Yakov Smirnoff
I think 'Paranorman' was a great adventure.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument... →