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!


Van Wyck Brooks: Magnanimous people have...

Van Wyck Brooks: Magnanimous people have...

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find...

More about this quote...

Charles Simmons: He who wants...

Charles Simmons: He who wants...

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Life is made up of little things. True...

More about this quote...

Lewis Carroll: Alice came to...

Lewis Carroll: Alice came to...

Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?', responded the...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Guides cannot master...

Mark Twain: Guides cannot master...

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

Source: Innocents Abroad,...

More about this quote...

Lewis Carroll: What I tell...

Lewis Carroll: What I tell...

What I tell you three times is true.

Source: The Hunting of the Snark.
-- Lewis...

More about this quote...

Jane Austen: In every power,...

Jane Austen: In every power,...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the...

More about this quote...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The press, the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The press, the...

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to...

More about this quote...

Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like...

More about this quote...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Crying is an...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Crying is an...

Crying is an act which one should perform only in private, for crying is a private way of groping for...

More about this quote...

bell hooks: . . .there...

bell hooks: . . .there...

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions,...

More about this quote...

Francois de Salignac Fenelon: Children are excellent...

Francois de Salignac Fenelon: Children are excellent...

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern...

More about this quote...

Wendell Phillips: Responsibility educates....

Wendell Phillips: Responsibility educates....

Responsibility educates.

Source:
-- Wendell Phillips, (Nov 29 1811-1884), US...

More about this quote...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a...

More about this quote...

A man who...

A man who...

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a...

More about this quote...

In this era...

In this era...

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be...

More about this quote...

We believe. ....

We believe. ....

We believe. . . that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Source:...

More about this quote...

The greatest things...

The greatest things...

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

More about this quote...

Muddle is the...

Muddle is the...

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Source: Anatomy of...

More about this quote...

As a rule,...

As a rule,...

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed....

More about this quote...

He has left...

He has left...

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

More about this quote...

Page 152 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA