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!


Desiderius Erasmus: A good portion...

Desiderius Erasmus: A good portion...

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Source: In The...

More about this quote...

Alexis de Tocqueville: Consider any individual...

Alexis de Tocqueville: Consider any individual...

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to...

More about this quote...

Alexis de Tocqueville: The greatness of...

Alexis de Tocqueville: The greatness of...

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair...

More about this quote...

Amos Bronson Alcott: The true teacher...

Amos Bronson Alcott: The true teacher...

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their...

More about this quote...

Marita Bonner: She did not...

Marita Bonner: She did not...

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if...

More about this quote...

James B Conant: Some of mankind's...

James B Conant: Some of mankind's...

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or...

More about this quote...

Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Perhaps she was both child and woman,
darkness and light, past and present,
life and death -- all the...

More about this quote...

Chuck Yeager: Never wait for...

Chuck Yeager: Never wait for...

Never wait for trouble.

Source: Chuck' Yeager.
-- Chuck Yeager, (Feb 13...

More about this quote...

Stonewall Jackson: I like liquor...

Stonewall Jackson: I like liquor...

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink...

More about this quote...

Ferdinand Foch: My center is...

Ferdinand Foch: My center is...

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

More about this quote...

Grace Murray Hopper: If one ox...

Grace Murray Hopper: If one ox...

If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer...

More about this quote...

Horatio Nelson: I have only...

Horatio Nelson: I have only...

I have only one eye: I have a right to be blind sometimes: I really do not see the signal.

More about this quote...

Jacques Cousteau: We must plant...

Jacques Cousteau: We must plant...

We must plant the sea and herd its animals . . . using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...

More about this quote...

Robert Baden-Powell: It is called...

Robert Baden-Powell: It is called...

It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it . . . should it become a habit it...

More about this quote...

A J P Taylor: Human blunders usually...

A J P Taylor: Human blunders usually...

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

Source: The...

More about this quote...

A J P Taylor: In my opinion,...

A J P Taylor: In my opinion,...

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer -- the wealth, prestige and grandeur...

More about this quote...

Theodore H White: His passion has...

Theodore H White: His passion has...

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the...

More about this quote...

Theodore H White: A liberal is...

Theodore H White: A liberal is...

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes...

More about this quote...

Theodore H White: The flood of...

Theodore H White: The flood of...

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

More about this quote...

Henry Brooks Adams: One friend in...

Henry Brooks Adams: One friend in...

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of...

More about this quote...

Page 332 of 2,002


(C)2025 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA