This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
May Sarton, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton
Instant success is the order of the day; "I want it now!" I wonder whether this is not part of our corruption by machines. Machines do things very quickly and outside the natural rhythm of life...so the few things that we still do...anything at all that cannot be hurried, have a very particular value.
Corruption | Machines | Order | Success | Wonder |
Max Lerner, fully Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner, aka Mikhail Lerner
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Individual | Success | Taste | Tomorrow | Will |
May Sarton, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton
Whether success or failure: the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Max Planck, fully Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Irani
The pleasure and the pain, experienced in the life on earth, the success or failure, which attend it, the attainments and obstacles, with which it is strewed, the friends and foes, which make their appearance in it, are all deter-mined by the Karma of past lives. Karmic deter-mination is popularly designated as fate. Fate however is not some foreign and oppressive principle. Fate is man's own creation pursuing him from past lives: and just as it has been shaped by past Karma, it can also be modified, remoulded and even undone, through Karma in the present life.
Appearance | Fate | Life | Life | Past | Pleasure | Present | Success | Fate | Friends |
Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Irani
Solitude is one of the essential conditions of at-taining success in meditation.
Success |
If you develop the habits of success, you will make success a habit.
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.
Innovation | Success |
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say,
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.
Mike Ditka, fully Michael Keller Ditka, Jr., aka "Iron" Mike Ditka
Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
Excellence | Money | Success | Excellence |
Mike Ditka, fully Michael Keller Ditka, Jr., aka "Iron" Mike Ditka
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Discipline | Money | Power | Success |
Milarepa, fully Jetsun Milarepa NULL
It is difficult to meet success in the effort to insure one's own spiritual welfare, even without seeking to benefit others. If you seek another's spiritual welfare before attaining your own, it would be like a helplessly drowning man trying to save another man in the same predicament. Therefore, one should not be too anxious and hasty in setting out to save others before one has, oneself, realized Truth in Its fullness. That would be like the blind leading the blind. As long as the sky endures, there will be no dearth of sentient beings for you to serve, and your opportunity for such service will come. Till it does, I exhort each one of you to keep but one resolve: namely, to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all living creatures.
Effort | Man | Opportunity | Service | Success | Truth | Will |
Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can if make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!
Charles De Montesquieu, formally Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.