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!


Winston Churchill: No folly is...

Winston Churchill: No folly is...

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Source: In The...

More about this quote...

Winston Churchill: Those who can...

Winston Churchill: Those who can...

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won...

More about this quote...

Anatole France: If fifty million...

Anatole France: If fifty million...

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Annie Dillard: The secret of...

Annie Dillard: The secret of...

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted,...

More about this quote...

Honore de Balzac: If those who...

Honore de Balzac: If those who...

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring,...

More about this quote...

Honore de Balzac: I am laughing...

Honore de Balzac: I am laughing...

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never...

More about this quote...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise...

More about this quote...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Excellent!' I cried....

Arthur Conan Doyle: Excellent!' I cried....

'Excellent!' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he.

Source: Watson talking to Sherlock...

More about this quote...

Erica Jong: And the trouble...

Erica Jong: And the trouble...

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Source: In...

More about this quote...

George Moore: Taking something from...

George Moore: Taking something from...

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Source: In...

More about this quote...

George Moore: There is nothing...

George Moore: There is nothing...

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's...

More about this quote...

G K Chesterton: Nothing is poetical...

G K Chesterton: Nothing is poetical...

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not...

More about this quote...

G K Chesterton: New roads: new...

G K Chesterton: New roads: new...

New roads: new ruts.

Source: Attrib.
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936),...

More about this quote...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Own only what...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Own only what...

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your...

More about this quote...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature transmits incontrovertible...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature transmits incontrovertible...

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience . . . from generation to generation. In this way literature...

More about this quote...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Generosity is a...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Generosity is a...

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his...

More about this quote...

G K Chesterton: You could compile...

G K Chesterton: You could compile...

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the...

More about this quote...

Douglas Coupland: I like doing...

Douglas Coupland: I like doing...

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only...

More about this quote...

S J Perelman: English life, while...

S J Perelman: English life, while...

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is...

More about this quote...

Frederick Douglass: Slaves were expected...

Frederick Douglass: Slaves were expected...

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or...

More about this quote...

Page 1,731 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA