This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Achievement | Will |
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
Achievement | World |
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Achievement | Freedom |
Don't wait for the last judgment-it takes place every day...An achievement is bondage. It obliges one to higher achievement.
Achievement | Day | Judgment |
Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
A brilliant achievement may win for you the favor of a people at one stroke; but to earn the love and respect of the population that surrounds you, a long succession of little services rendered and of obscure good deeds, a constant habit of kindness and an established reputation for disinterestedness will be required.
Achievement | Deeds | Good | Habit | Kindness | Little | Love | People | Reputation | Respect | Will | Respect |
The future is big with every possibility of achievement and of tragedy.
Achievement | Future | Tragedy |
The man who believes firmly that the Creator of the universe loves him and cares infinitely what he dose with his life - this man is automatically freed from much of the self-distrust that afflicts less certain men. Fear, guilt, hostility, anger - these are the emotions that stifle thought and impede action. By reducing or eliminating them, religious faith makes boldness possible, and boldness makes achievement possible.
Achievement | Action | Anger | Boldness | Distrust | Emotions | Faith | Fear | Guilt | Life | Life | Man | Men | Self | Thought | Universe | Thought |
Life's greatest achievement is the continual remaking of yourself so that at last you know how to live.
Achievement | Life | Life |
Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Human dignity… can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
Achievement | Compassion | Dignity | Ethics | Greed | Love |
Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Human dignity...can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.
Achievement | Compassion | Dignity | Ethics | Greed | Love |
Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum
Man - every man - is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others. He must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing other to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.
Achievement | Ends | Life | Life | Man | Means | Purpose | Purpose | Self | Self-interest | Work | Happiness |
Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum
The most profoundly revolutionary achievement of the United States of America was the subordination of society to moral law.
Achievement | Law | Moral law | Society | Society |