This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The secret of success [in education] is pace, and the secret of pace is concentration. But, in respect to precise knowledge, the watchwords is pace, pace, pace. Get your knowledge quickly, and then use it. If you can use it, you will retain it.
Education | Knowledge | Respect | Success | Will | Respect |
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady action. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation, - preserving in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
Action | Better | Man | Men | Mind | Success | Thought | Thought |
All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends - wisdom, money, materials and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Ends | Means | Men | Money | Service | Society | Success | Wisdom |
Your values are your belief systems about right and wrong, good and bad. Our values are the things we all fundamentally need to move toward... Our values change when we change goals or self-image... There is no real success except in keeping your basic values.
Belief | Change | Goals | Good | Need | Right | Self | Success | Wrong |
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Confidence | Important | Self | Self-confidence | Success |
I do not make success or failure the criteria by which I live. I like to take chances and I am impressed by others who do so with a freedom of spirit. Those who dare to try also dare to fail. This is a wonderful thing! If we limit ourselves to what is risk-free, we may be missing out on the most rewarding adventures in life.
Failure | Freedom | Life | Life | Risk | Spirit | Success | Failure |
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
Appreciation | Beauty | Better | Children | Earth | Inspiration | Life | Life | Little | Love | Memory | Men | Respect | Soul | Success | World | Appreciation | Respect | Beauty |
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Life | Life | Man | Opportunity | Success |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
Achievement | Man | Success |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Children learn at their own pace, and it is a mistake to try to force them. The great incentive to effort, all through life, is experience of success after initial difficulties. The difficulties must not be so great as to cause discouragement, or so small as not to stimulate effort. From birth to death, this is a fundamental principle. It is by what we do ourselves that we learn.
Birth | Cause | Children | Death | Effort | Experience | Force | Life | Life | Mistake | Success | Learn |
Of all the passions, jealously is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
The primary cause of success in life is the ability to set and achieve goals. That’s why the people who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those who do. You either work to achieve your own goals or you work to achieve someone else’s.
Ability | Cause | Goals | Life | Life | People | Success | Work |
He that has never known adversity, is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the world. for, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.