He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904) was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His primary work, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits.
