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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Mark Caine

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Success | Wisdom |

Mark Caine

The success always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Any one of them could change the course of his life overnight.

Change | Life | Life | Looks | Success | Wisdom |

James Burke

The key to why things change is the key to everything.

Change | Wisdom |

James Herbert Case, Jr.

Peace is not the elimination of the causes of war. Rather it is a mastery of great human forces and the creation of an environment in which human aims may be pursued constructively.

Aims | Peace | War | Wisdom |

James Burgh

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

Adversity | Change | Hope | Prosperity | Wisdom |

Elihu Burritt

All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plotting, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.

Hope | Thought | Will | Wisdom | Thought |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.

Fame | Hope | Love | Man | Money | Wisdom |

Robert Conkin, aka Bob Conkin

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Change | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

John Dewey

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

Change | Intelligence | Wisdom |

Charles W. Eliot

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarded who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

Evil | Hope | Life | Life | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

India Edwards

The time has come when we must hope our children and their children ad infinitum will want from life more than material success. They must have enough of that to ensure a roof, clothing, food and some recreation, but, if we are to survive for another two hundred years, we must change our way of life.

Change | Children | Enough | Hope | Life | Life | Recreation | Success | Time | Will | Wisdom |

David Elkind

Today's child has become the unwilling, unintended victim of overwhelming stress --the stress bound of rapid, bewildering social change and constantly rising expectations.

Change | Wisdom | Child | Victim |

Maria Edgeworth

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Hope | Hurry | Indolence | Man | Present | Will | Wisdom | World |

Albert Einstein

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Cause | Force | Hope | Law | Peace | Religion | Wisdom | Zeal |

Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those in cemeteries.

Change | Life | Life | People | Wisdom |

Thomas Dreier

That person lives in hell who gets what he desires too soon. Whether he finds his happiness in wealth, power, fame or women, or in a combination of all, that happiness will be meaningless if it robs him of his desire. Heaven is a country through which we are permitted to search eagerly and with hope for what we want.

Desire | Fame | Heaven | Hell | Hope | Power | Search | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |

Albert Einstein

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Wisdom |

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Heredity | Life | Life | Wisdom |

Henry Fielding

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Change | Circumstances | Heart | Joy | Wisdom |