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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Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron

Have success and there will always be fools to say that you have talent.

Success | Will | Wisdom |

John Henry Patterson

Business is founded on vision and confidence; success on industry and cooperation.

Business | Confidence | Cooperation | Industry | Success | Vision | Wisdom |

Albert Schweitzer

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives with men and facts, but in all experiences retires upon himself, and looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself.

Cause | Life | Life | Looks | Man | Men | Success | Wisdom |

Samuel Smiles

It is not ease but effort, not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

Difficulty | Effort | Life | Life | Men | Success | Wisdom |

Ralph C. Smedley

Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

Position | Success | Wisdom |

Samuel Smiles

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts, made by successive generations of men, the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up and growing at length into a mighty pyramid.

Art | Business | Experience | Knowledge | Life | Life | Little | Men | Observation | Science | Success | Wisdom |

Howard Sparks

The art of our era is not art, but technology. Today Rembrandt is painting automobiles; Shakespeare is writing research reports.

Art | Era | Research | Technology | Wisdom | Writing | Art |

Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

If a man loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Fame | Labor | Man | Question | Success | Wisdom |

E. B. White, fully Elwyn Brooks White

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn’t have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born upright. The beauty of the American free press is that the slants and the twists and the distortions come from so many directions, and the special interests are so numerous, the reader must sift and sort and check and countercheck in order to find out what the score is.

Beauty | Free press | Man | Order | Wisdom | Writing | Beauty |

John M. Wilson, fully John Moulder Wilson

Are you willing to think? Consider carefully, for the answer to that question will largely determine your success or failure in life. If you develop your judgment, use it. Exercise your power of judgment as often as you can, for the first rule of good judgment is practice. The functions of your mind, no less than the muscles of your body, receive their strength through repeated use.

Body | Failure | Good | Judgment | Life | Life | Mind | Power | Practice | Question | Receive | Rule | Strength | Success | Will | Wisdom | Failure |

Steven Berglas

Individuals who suffer success have what I call the four A’s - arrogance, a sense of aloneness, the need to seek adventure, and adultery.

Adultery | Adventure | Arrogance | Need | Sense | Success |

Kenneth Boulding, fully Kenneth Ewart Boulding

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Failure | Nothing | Success | Learn |

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 |

Tom Butler-Bowdon

Doubt attracts “reasons” for not succeeding, whereas belief finds the means to do the job. Do not see yourself merely in terms of how you appear now. Absorbing the blows is a quality of greatness. Every big success is created one step at a time.

Belief | Doubt | Greatness | Means | Success | Time |

Barbara Bush, fully Barbara Pierce Bush

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.

Important | People | Success | Will |