Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Owen D. Young

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Change | Courage | Day | Faith | Heart | Mind | Spirit | Vision | Wisdom |

Carol Adrienne

Purpose is about developing relationships. Purpose is about bringing attention and intention into the present moment, moving ahead with new ideas, giving and receiving support, volunteering, mentoring, listening to the imagination and intuition, communicating, taking action based on inner direction and hints from the external, being adaptable, taking responsibility and ending the victim stance forever surrendering to the divine will and working with the lessons developing fluidity, tolerance, compassion, and the ability to love.

Ability | Action | Attention | Compassion | Giving | Ideas | Imagination | Intention | Intuition | Listening | Love | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Responsibility | Will | Victim |

Carol Adrienne

Focus on being grateful… Whatever you focus on with true appreciation and gratitude – you are generating a higher frequency of energy. By living and taking action in a higher frequency (which is also a deeper and richer frequency) you are more aligned with your purpose.

Action | Appreciation | Energy | Focus | Gratitude | Purpose | Purpose | Appreciation |

Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesteron

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Courage | Life | Life | Little | Man | Order | Paradox |

Tom Butler-Bowdon

If you have a single powerful purpose, you will have the courage to act on your ideas.

Courage | Ideas | Purpose | Purpose | Will |

Margaret Bourke-White

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.

Action | Life | Life | Man | People | Work |

Tom Butler-Bowdon

The first step on the road to success is good character. The second is openness to new perspectives. The third is ensuring that daily action is shaped by higher aims, with the knowledge that you always reap what you sow.

Action | Aims | Character | Good | Knowledge | Openness | Success |

Andrew Carnegie

No kind action is ever lost.

Action |

Robert E. Carter, fully Robert Edgar Carter

In order to live we must decide on one course of action rather than another, moment by moment. We declare our values and take our stands in both small ways and large. Were we to admit that we are never certain that we have chosen correctly, and never reassured that this chosen course was the correct course of action, then we would be open to the unending exploration and revision in our way of living. We would have learned to put our prejudices and assumptions, our convictions and beliefs at risk.

Action | Convictions | Order | Risk |

Fidel Castro, fully Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz

Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary. Humanity will, of course, change. Human society will, of course, continue to develop – in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.

Action | Change | Humanity | Ideas | Men | Society | Waiting | Will | Society |

Régis Debray, fully Jules Régis Debray

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

Courage | Example | Sacrifice | Leader |

Jacques Ellul

Action makes propaganda’s effect irreversible. He who acts in obedience to propaganda can never go back. He is not obliged to believe in that propaganda because of his past action. He is obliged to receive from it his justification and authority, without which his action will seem to him absurd or unjust, which would be intolerable.

Absurd | Action | Authority | Justification | Obedience | Past | Receive | Will | Propaganda |

Albert Einstein

Science has brought this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men. We will not change the hearts of other men by mechanisms, but by changing our hearts and speaking bravely… When we are clear in heart and mind – only then shall we find courage to surmount the fear which haunts the world.

Change | Courage | Danger | Fear | Heart | Men | Mind | Science | Will | World |

Norman F. Dixon

The best measure of courage is the fear to overcome.

Courage | Fear |

Albert Einstein

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Beauty | Courage | Ideals | Kindness | Life | Life | Time | Truth | Beauty |