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!


Raoul Vaneigem: Work to survive,...

Raoul Vaneigem: Work to survive,...

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

More about this quote...

Raoul Vaneigem: In an industrial...

Raoul Vaneigem: In an industrial...

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of...

More about this quote...

Lu Yan: Dreams are the...

Lu Yan: Dreams are the...

Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.

More about this quote...

Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

Boris Pasternak: In every generation...

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

More about this quote...

Jeremy Taylor: Knowledge comes by...

Jeremy Taylor: Knowledge comes by...

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is not...

More about this quote...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Life is a...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Life is a...

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for...

More about this quote...

Hosea Ballou: Brevity and conciseness...

Hosea Ballou: Brevity and conciseness...

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Source: In Instant Quotation...

More about this quote...

Theodor W Adorno: There are no...

Theodor W Adorno: There are no...

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through...

More about this quote...

Gaston Bachelard: The characteristic of...

Gaston Bachelard: The characteristic of...

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

More about this quote...

Francois Rabelais: I have known...

Francois Rabelais: I have known...

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

More about this quote...

Samuel Smiles: Man cannot aspire...

Samuel Smiles: Man cannot aspire...

Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up.

Source: In The...

More about this quote...

Samuel Smiles: The reason why...

Samuel Smiles: The reason why...

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

More about this quote...

Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say,...

More about this quote...

Margaret Halsey: The people who...

Margaret Halsey: The people who...

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is...

More about this quote...

Hermann Hesse: To study history...

Hermann Hesse: To study history...

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious...

More about this quote...

Henry Fielding: I have found...

Henry Fielding: I have found...

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was...

More about this quote...

Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . .They are satiated by...

More about this quote...

Dr Seuss: You make 'em,...

Dr Seuss: You make 'em,...

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Source: On children.
-- Dr Seuss, (Mar 2 1904-1991),...

More about this quote...

Mary Renault: In hatred as...

Mary Renault: In hatred as...

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...

More about this quote...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: The only good...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: The only good...

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Source: In...

More about this quote...

Page 661 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA