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!


To be loved...

To be loved...

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Now the whole...

Now the whole...

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring,...

More about this quote...

Writing is more...

Writing is more...

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful...

More about this quote...

Most of us...

Most of us...

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

Source: In...

More about this quote...

Intuition is reason...

Intuition is reason...

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

More about this quote...

If you live...

If you live...

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for...

More about this quote...

Time has lost...

Time has lost...

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American...

More about this quote...

If you are...

If you are...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you...

More about this quote...

All women hustle....

All women hustle....

All women hustle. Women watch faces, voices, gestures, moods . . . She's the person who has to survive through...

More about this quote...

Everyone has a...

Everyone has a...

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of...

More about this quote...

Everyone should fail...

Everyone should fail...

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Source:...

More about this quote...

There are only...

There are only...

There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander...

More about this quote...

Insanity is hereditary...

Insanity is hereditary...

Insanity is hereditary -- you get it from your children.

Source: In Diner's Club...

More about this quote...

If you can...

If you can...

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the...

More about this quote...

There is nothing...

There is nothing...

There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great...

More about this quote...

Every man thinks...

Every man thinks...

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at...

More about this quote...

What marks the...

What marks the...

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

More about this quote...

Stanislaw Lec: Most of the...

Stanislaw Lec: Most of the...

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

More about this quote...

Nikita Khrushchev: If one cannot...

Nikita Khrushchev: If one cannot...

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Source: In Time...

More about this quote...

Dwight D Eisenhower: What counts is...

Dwight D Eisenhower: What counts is...

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the...

More about this quote...

Page 153 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA