This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines greatness.
Excellence | Greatness | Success | Wisdom | Excellence |
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.
Method | Perseverance | Scandal | Wisdom |
Tolerance of opinions which are thought to be innocuous is as easy, as acts of charity that entail no sacrifice. But the test of a free society is its tolerance of what is deplored or despised by a majority of its members. The argument for such tolerance must be made on the ground that it is useful to the society... that free societies are better fitted to survive than closed societies.
Argument | Better | Charity | Majority | Sacrifice | Society | Thought | Wisdom | Society | Thought |
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
Dedication | Luck | Majority | People | Study | Wisdom | Work |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Power | Reform | Revolution | Wisdom |
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Viewed ecologically, the human saga is a tragic success story.
Philarète Chasles, fully Victor Euphemien Philarète Chasles
The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.
Opportunity | Success | Wisdom |
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.
Attention | Business | Competition | Good | Important | Man | Price | Service | Success | Wisdom | Work | Business |
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.