Welcome to the Quotable Success Collections!

Quotable Success, like BeMoreCreative.com, encourages thinking, working, and living more creatively. Creativity is "the power to connect the seemingly unconnected" (W. Plommer). To support this work, we earn a small affiliate commission. Please browse creatively!


Dorothy Gilman: A man from...

Dorothy Gilman: A man from...

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Source: Incident at Badamaya,...

More about this quote...

E L Konigsburg: Some days you...

E L Konigsburg: Some days you...

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up...

More about this quote...

Rachel Field: The public is...

Rachel Field: The public is...

The public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

Source: All This &...

More about this quote...

Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Youth is a mortal wound

Source: Jacob Have I Loved, 1980.
-- Katherine Paterson,...

More about this quote...

Margery Allingham: Chemists employed by...

Margery Allingham: Chemists employed by...

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can . . . weave it into a rope to hang a...

More about this quote...

J P Donleavy: To marry the...

J P Donleavy: To marry the...

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

Source: The Ginger Man, 1955
-- J P...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Most people are...

Mark Twain: Most people are...

Most people are bothered by scripture they don't understand, but what bothers me are those I do...

More about this quote...

Jean Paul Richter: In later life,...

Jean Paul Richter: In later life,...

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by...

More about this quote...

Arnold Bennett: There can be...

Arnold Bennett: There can be...

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not...

More about this quote...

Arnold Bennett: It is easier...

Arnold Bennett: It is easier...

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Upton Sinclair: All truly great...

Upton Sinclair: All truly great...

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all...

More about this quote...

Sholem Asch: The lash may...

Sholem Asch: The lash may...

The lash may force men to physical labor: it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

More about this quote...

Laurence Sterne: Nothing is so...

Laurence Sterne: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Source: Tristram...

More about this quote...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Attacking is the...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Attacking is the...

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it...

More about this quote...

Margaret Mitchell: My pet, the...

Margaret Mitchell: My pet, the...

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own...

More about this quote...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Keep what is worth keeping --
And with the breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.


More about this quote...

Kathleen Norris: Life is easier...

Kathleen Norris: Life is easier...

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and...

More about this quote...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special...

More about this quote...

Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Writers should be read -- but neither seen nor heard.

Source: In The Speaker's...

More about this quote...

Marcus Garvey: I know no...

Marcus Garvey: I know no...

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is...

More about this quote...

Page 1,070 of 2,002


(C)2025 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA