This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
Confidence | Nothing | Friendship |
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
Confidence | Nothing | Friendship |
Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Colin Powell, fully Colin Luther Powell
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
A teacher who tends to lower the self-esteem and confidence of his students should either change this tendency or change professions. One of the most important lessons an educator can convey to students is that they have inherent worth and should strive to utilize their potential.
Change | Confidence | Esteem | Important | Self | Self-esteem | Worth | Teacher |
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
Confidence | Little |
Eddie Rickenbacker, formally Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Achievement | Confidence | Death | Life | Life | Will | Think |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
How many parents experience the child's reactions in terms of his being obedient, of giving them pleasure, of being a care to them, and so forth, instead of perceiving or even being interested in what the child feels for and by himself?
Care | Experience | Giving | Parents | Child |
Eddie Rickenbacker, formally Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker
Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Achievement | Confidence | Life | Life |
We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Confidence | Need | Friends |
Fyodor Dostoevsky, fully Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky or Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself.
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Confidence | Hope | Indispensable | Life | Life | Trust | Virtue | Virtue |
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Confidence | Man | Security | Strength |
Fyodor Dostoevsky, fully Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky or Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski
Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself.
Disrespect | Lying | Man | Order | Truth |
Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers," born Frederick McFeely Rogers
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.