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!


James Thurber: Why do you...

James Thurber: Why do you...

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Source: Attrib. Actually...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Why was the...

Mark Twain: Why was the...

Why was the human race created? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit...

More about this quote...

Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

More about this quote...

Richard Bach: That's what learning...

Richard Bach: That's what learning...

That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it,...

More about this quote...

Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

Mary McCarthy: The suspense of...

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will...

More about this quote...

Mary McCarthy: The happy ending...

Mary McCarthy: The happy ending...

The happy ending is our national belief.

Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1, America...

More about this quote...

Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of...

More about this quote...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Source: In The...

More about this quote...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Down with unpartisan...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Down with unpartisan...

Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the...

More about this quote...

Henry McNeal Turner: The seeds of...

Henry McNeal Turner: The seeds of...

The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by...

More about this quote...

The concerts you...

The concerts you...

The concerts you enjoy together
Neighbors you annoy together
Children you destroy together
That make marriage...

More about this quote...

Peter Drucker: There is nothing...

Peter Drucker: There is nothing...

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

More about this quote...

Stephen R Covey: An empowered organization...

Stephen R Covey: An empowered organization...

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally...

More about this quote...

Stanislaw Lec: The finger of...

Stanislaw Lec: The finger of...

The finger of God never leaves the same fingerprint.

Source: In 20,000 Quips and...

More about this quote...

James McNeill Whistler: I can't tell...

James McNeill Whistler: I can't tell...

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

More about this quote...

Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Source: In Webster's NewWorld...

More about this quote...

Grandma Moses: I don't advise...

Grandma Moses: I don't advise...

I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as...

More about this quote...

M C Escher: He who wonders...

M C Escher: He who wonders...

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

Source:
-- M C Escher,...

More about this quote...

Gustave Courbet: Beauty, like truth,...

Gustave Courbet: Beauty, like truth,...

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of...

More about this quote...

Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Diane Arbus: Everybody has that...

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people...

More about this quote...

Page 300 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA