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!


Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...

More about this quote...

Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

More about this quote...

John Fowles: An answer is...

John Fowles: An answer is...

An answer is always a form of death.

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

More about this quote...

John Fowles: Duty largely consists...

John Fowles: Duty largely consists...

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Source: The...

More about this quote...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....

More about this quote...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Only a man...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Only a man...

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a...

More about this quote...

Stanley Baldwin: I am one...

Stanley Baldwin: I am one...

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Winston Churchill: A pessimist sees...

Winston Churchill: A pessimist sees...

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every...

More about this quote...

Winston Churchill: Those who can...

Winston Churchill: Those who can...

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won...

More about this quote...

Thomas Carlyle: The purpose of...

Thomas Carlyle: The purpose of...

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

More about this quote...

Thomas Carlyle: Youth is to...

Thomas Carlyle: Youth is to...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it...

More about this quote...

Henry David Thoreau: If misery loves...

Henry David Thoreau: If misery loves...

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Source: Journals, 1906, entry...

More about this quote...

Henry David Thoreau: To watch this...

Henry David Thoreau: To watch this...

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling...

More about this quote...

Henry David Thoreau: As to conforming...

Henry David Thoreau: As to conforming...

As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that...

More about this quote...

Henry David Thoreau: If a thousand...

Henry David Thoreau: If a thousand...

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it...

More about this quote...

Henry David Thoreau: I fear chiefly...

Henry David Thoreau: I fear chiefly...

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of...

More about this quote...

Henry David Thoreau: To be a...

Henry David Thoreau: To be a...

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to...

More about this quote...

Henry David Thoreau: Our whole life...

Henry David Thoreau: Our whole life...

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and...

More about this quote...

Henry David Thoreau: Give me the...

Henry David Thoreau: Give me the...

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Source: Walden, The Ponds, 1854.
--...

More about this quote...

Henry David Thoreau: True, there are...

Henry David Thoreau: True, there are...

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of...

More about this quote...

Page 1,552 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA