This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.
Appetite | Comfort | Fun | Health | Honor | Intelligence | Knowledge | Money | Peace | Pleasure | Quiet |
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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 |
Being Those who are driven by a burning desire or higher purpose usually achieve great deeds. This purpose transcends money, security, or status. It is the knowledge that they are part of something worthy, right, and valuable.
Deeds | Desire | Knowledge | Money | Purpose | Purpose | Right | Security |
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 |
Robert A. Millikan, fully Robert Andrews Millikan
Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.
Humility | Ignorance | Knowledge | Means | Reverence | Understanding |
Fear feeds on itself; so does confidence and self-reliance. Make your choice.
Choice | Confidence | Fear | Self | Self-reliance |
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Ends | Improvement | Knowledge | Understanding |
Eleanor Roosevelt, fully Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.
Confidence | Courage | Experience | Fear | Strength | Think |
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Change | Good | Knowledge | Reality | Universe | World | Poem |
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
Confidence | Fear | Future | Novelty | Novelty |