This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Dedication | Determination | Price | Success | Work |
Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Ambition | Character | Experience | Quiet | Soul | Success | Suffering | Vision | Ambition | Trial |
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you
Thomas J. Watston, Sr., fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Rahel Varnhagen, Rahel Antonie Friederike Varnhagen née Levin later Robert
I always give much away, and so gather happiness instead of pleasure.
The man who thinks he can: If you think you are beaten, you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you would like to win but you think you can't, it's almost certain you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the world we find, success begins with a fellow's will. It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are. You've got to think high to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but soon or late, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can!
John D. Rockefeller, fully John Davidson Rockefeller I
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Nature | Perseverance | Success | Think |
The only place you’ll find success before work is in the dictionary.
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.
Opportunity | People | Success |
Marguerite Yourcenar, pseudonym for Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour
All happiness is innocence.
What so great happiness as to be beloved, and to know that we deserve to be beloved? What so great misery as to be hated, and to know that we deserve to be hated?