This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
The world is mathematical, and has no casualty, in all its vast and flowing curve. Success has no more eccentricity than the gingham and muslin we weave in our mills.
Eccentricity | Success | World |
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fills the hour and the company, contented and contending.
Conversation | Happy | Little | Man | Memory | Men | Society | Spirit | Success | Sympathy | Will | Wit | Society |
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner; neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify men for usefulness and happiness.
Men | Prosperity | Success | Usefulness |
Roger Babson, fully Roger Ward Babson
A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character - that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.
Roger Babson, fully Roger Ward Babson
Experience has taught me that financial success, job success and happiness in human relations are, in the main, the result of (a) physical well-being; (b) constant effort to develop one's personal assets; (c) setting up and working toward a series of life goals; (d) allowing time for meditation and spiritual regeneration.
Effort | Experience | Goals | Life | Life | Meditation | Success | Time | Happiness |
Russell H. Conwell, fully Russell Herman Conwell
No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Achievement | Children | Enjoyment | Success |
The devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.
Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds,. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.
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