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!


Mark Twain: A powerful agent...

Mark Twain: A powerful agent...

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words . . . the resulting...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: All I say...

Mark Twain: All I say...

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: An experienced, industrious,...

Mark Twain: An experienced, industrious,...

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: After a few...

Mark Twain: After a few...

After a few months' acquaintance with European coffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: By his father...

Mark Twain: By his father...

By his father he is English, by his mother he is American -- to my mind the blend which makes the perfect...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Few sinners have...

Mark Twain: Few sinners have...

Few sinners have been saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Humor is the...

Mark Twain: Humor is the...

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing, after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Human nature is...

Mark Twain: Human nature is...

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Nothing that grieves...

Mark Twain: Nothing that grieves...

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Necessity is the...

Mark Twain: Necessity is the...

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: One may make...

Mark Twain: One may make...

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: The man who...

Mark Twain: The man who...

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Water, taken in...

Mark Twain: Water, taken in...

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

More about this quote...

Boris Pasternak: I don't like...

Boris Pasternak: I don't like...

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life...

More about this quote...

E M Forster: The only books...

E M Forster: The only books...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our...

More about this quote...

E M Forster: At night, when...

E M Forster: At night, when...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective...

More about this quote...

E M Forster: I suggest that...

E M Forster: I suggest that...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further...

More about this quote...

Evelyn Waugh: Enclosing every thin...

Evelyn Waugh: Enclosing every thin...

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Experience suggests it...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Experience suggests it...

Experience suggests it doesn?t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive....

More about this quote...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

More about this quote...

Page 1,861 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA