self-help quotes

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

- Samuel Smiles
  Self-Help, ch.1.

The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

- Samuel Smiles
  Self-Help, ch.10.