This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
To experience the satisfaction and enjoyment of success in life, a definitive goal is essential... Strong and organized purposefulness toward a definitive objective will focus your powers into a strong motivation in attainment of your goal.
Attainment | Enjoyment | Experience | Focus | Life | Life | Success | Will |
It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain.
Enthusiasm | Feelings | Reason |
The great success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
Confidence | People | Success | Understanding |
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
Confidence | Conversation | Life | Life | People | Success | Understanding |
He that would know hot to be always pleased, glad of success and glad of disappointment should accustom himself to reflect that every event of whatever complexion, increases his knowledge and in consequence his power.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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.