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!


George Borrow: It has been...

George Borrow: It has been...

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt...

More about this quote...

George Borrow: I have always...

George Borrow: I have always...

I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized...

More about this quote...

Karl von Clausewitz: Pursue one great...

Karl von Clausewitz: Pursue one great...

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Source: In The...

More about this quote...

Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

More about this quote...

Konrad Lorenz: Historians will have...

Konrad Lorenz: Historians will have...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner...

More about this quote...

William Manchester: Actors who have...

William Manchester: Actors who have...

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great...

More about this quote...

George Bancroft: The exact measure...

George Bancroft: The exact measure...

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has...

More about this quote...

Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or...

More about this quote...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,...

More about this quote...

Daniel Defoe: The best of...

Daniel Defoe: The best of...

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.


More about this quote...

J B S Haldane: We do not...

J B S Haldane: We do not...

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But...

More about this quote...

John Dewey: The end justifies...

John Dewey: The end justifies...

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable...

More about this quote...

Richard Francis Burton: As threshing separates...

Richard Francis Burton: As threshing separates...

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

More about this quote...

Richard Francis Burton: Do what thy...

Richard Francis Burton: Do what thy...

Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
From none but self expect applause:
He noblest lives and noblest dies
Who...

More about this quote...

Alexis de Tocqueville: In a revolution,...

Alexis de Tocqueville: In a revolution,...

In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

More about this quote...

Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these decisions upon the awareness of our inner...

More about this quote...

Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opportunities, rather...

More about this quote...

Potter Stewart: Newspapers, television networks,...

Potter Stewart: Newspapers, television networks,...

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and...

More about this quote...

William O Douglas: At the constitutional...

William O Douglas: At the constitutional...

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies...

More about this quote...

William O Douglas: The search for...

William O Douglas: The search for...

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved...

More about this quote...

Page 264 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA