This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Earnestness | Enthusiasm | Reason |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
Achievement | Man | Success |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Children learn at their own pace, and it is a mistake to try to force them. The great incentive to effort, all through life, is experience of success after initial difficulties. The difficulties must not be so great as to cause discouragement, or so small as not to stimulate effort. From birth to death, this is a fundamental principle. It is by what we do ourselves that we learn.
Birth | Cause | Children | Death | Effort | Experience | Force | Life | Life | Mistake | Success | Learn |
Of all the passions, jealously is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemy; its wages to be sure of it.
The primary cause of success in life is the ability to set and achieve goals. That’s why the people who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those who do. You either work to achieve your own goals or you work to achieve someone else’s.
Ability | Cause | Goals | Life | Life | People | Success | Work |
He that has never known adversity, is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the world. for, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
Talk not of your personal success to one who has failed; forget not your failures in the moment of success.
Success |
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
The superior man makes the difficulty to be over come his first interest; success comes only later.
Difficulty | Man | Success |
The rulers of old set off all success to the credit of their people, attributing all failure to themselves.
To be elated at success and disappointed at failure is to be the child of circumstances; how can such a one be called master of himself?
Circumstances | Failure | Success | Failure | Child |
Cheating thrives where unfairness reigns, along with economic anxiety. It thrives where government is the weak captive of wealthy interests and lacks the will to do justice impartially. It thrives where money and success are king, and winners are fawned over whatever their daily abuses of power.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Government | Justice | Money | Power | Success | Unfairness | Will | Government |