This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Important | Knowledge | Life | Life | People | Pleasure | Success | Work | Value |
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
Ability | Better | Confidence | Courage | Defeat | Endurance | Future | Opportunity | Struggle | Success | Obstacle |
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Dedication | Determination | Price | Success | Work |
Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Ambition | Character | Experience | Quiet | Soul | Success | Suffering | Vision | Ambition | Trial |
Thomas J. Watston, Sr., fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
The man who thinks he can: If you think you are beaten, you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you would like to win but you think you can't, it's almost certain you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost, For out in the world we find, success begins with a fellow's will. It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are. You've got to think high to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but soon or late, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can!
John D. Rockefeller, fully John Davidson Rockefeller I
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Nature | Perseverance | Success | Think |
The only place you’ll find success before work is in the dictionary.
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.
Opportunity | People | Success |
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against he usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state.
Better | Defense | Government | Individual | People | Right | Self | Success |