Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Robert Collier

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Belief | Success | Wisdom |

Bill Copeland

You have removed most of the road blocks to success when you have learned the difference between motion and direction.

Success | Wisdom |

Henri Deterding, fully Henri Wilhelm August Deterding

There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity. Simplicity, I mean, in the sense of reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem that besets us. Whenever I have met a business proposition which, after taking thought, I could not reduce to simplicity, I have left it alone.

Business | Man | Sense | Simplicity | Success | Thought | Wisdom | Business |

Rufus Choate

All that happens in the world of nature and man - every war, every peace, every horn of prosperity, every horn of adversity, every election, every death, every life, every success and every failure, all change, all permanence, the perished leer, the unutterable glory of stars - all things speak truth in the thoughtful spirit.

Adversity | Change | Death | Failure | Glory | Life | Life | Man | Nature | Peace | Prosperity | Spirit | Success | Truth | War | Wisdom | World |

William Croswell Doane

Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts men on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes a pleasure of duty.

Difficulty | Duty | Endurance | Enthusiasm | Labor | Light | Men | Pleasure | Strength | Success | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

Father | Man | Mother | Wisdom | Woman |

Frederic Eggleston, fully Sir Frederic William Eggleston

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Failure | People | Success | Wisdom |

Francis Alexander "F.A." Durivage, wrote under pen name "Old Un"

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, a humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary that of the true, immortal.

Labor | Light | Merit | Success | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Nothing will give permanent success in any enterprise of life, except native capacity cultivated by honest and persevering effort. Genius is often but the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

Capacity | Discipline | Effort | Genius | Life | Life | Nothing | Success | Will | Wisdom |

David Dudley Field II

Above all others is justice: success is a good thing; wealth is good also; honor is better; but justice excels them all.

Better | Good | Honor | Justice | Success | Wealth | Wisdom |

Brendan Francis Behan

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Man | Success | Wisdom |

William Feather

There isn't much thrill in success unless one has first been close to failure.

Failure | Success | Wisdom |

F. Scott Fitzgerald, fully Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Compensation | Life | Life | Sense | Success | Wisdom |

François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then, is to desire - but to desire what God would have us desire.

Desire | Excellence | Father | God | Heart | Love | Need | Prayer | Wisdom | Words | Excellence | God |

Lowell Fillmore

Every individual is a king in the castle of his own mind. As king of his thoughts he can think those thought which will make him an unhappy and fearful monarch, or he can make his reign joyous and harmonious by listening to the Father within himself before making decisions.

Father | Individual | Listening | Mind | Thought | Will | Wisdom | Think | Thought |

Eugene Gifford Grace

If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.

Habit | Men | Observation | Success | Training | Wisdom |

J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Failure | Heredity | Success | Wisdom | Failure |

R. B. Cunninghame Graham, fully Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Nothing can stand against success and yet keep fresh. Nations as well as individuals feel its vulgarizing power.

Nations | Nothing | Power | Success | Wisdom |