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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J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Failure | Heredity | Success | Wisdom | Failure |

Charles Hanford Henderson

The busy world sometimes forgets that we need sympathy in our happiness as well as in our sorrow.

Need | Sorrow | Sympathy | Wisdom | World | Happiness |

Arthur Sherburne Hardy

Happiness is the legitimate fruitage of love and service. Set happiness before you as an end, no matter in what guise of wealth, or fame, or oblivion even, and you will not attain it. But renounce it and seek the pleasure of God, and that instant is the birth of your own.

Birth | Fame | God | Love | Oblivion | Pleasure | Service | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |

R. B. Cunninghame Graham, fully Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Nothing can stand against success and yet keep fresh. Nations as well as individuals feel its vulgarizing power.

Nations | Nothing | Power | Success | Wisdom |

Robert Half

Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.

Wisdom | Happiness |

Edward Howard Griggs

Peace among nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

Individual | Nations | Peace | Right | Wisdom | Happiness |

J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Life | Life | Man | Success | Wisdom | Friends |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True happiness springs from moderation.

Moderation | Wisdom | Happiness |

Arthur Sherburne Hardy

Set happiness before you as an end, no matter in what guise of wealth, or fame, or oblivion even, and you will not attain it. But renounce it and seek the pleasure of God, and that instant is the birth of you own.

Birth | Fame | God | Oblivion | Pleasure | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |

Bruce Doolin Henderson

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

Behavior | Industry | Means | Mediocrity | Plan | Policy | Success | Wisdom |

Paul G. Hoffman, fully Paul Gray Hoffman

It is a deep-seated belief on the part of almost all Americans that their success will be better assured as they help to build the success of others.

Belief | Better | Success | Will | Wisdom |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Whether a man accepts from fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from aspiration her axe and cord, and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart.

Aspiration | Fortune | Heart | Man | Success | Will | Wisdom | Work | Aspiration |

John Oliver Hobbes, Pseud. for Mrs. Pearlmary-Teresa Craigie

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

Wisdom | Happiness |