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!


Jacques Barzun: Great cultural changes...

Jacques Barzun: Great cultural changes...

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Source: The House...

More about this quote...

Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten...

More about this quote...

Giuseppe Mazzini: The theory of...

Giuseppe Mazzini: The theory of...

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between...

More about this quote...

Sylvia Pankhurst: A wondrous city...

Sylvia Pankhurst: A wondrous city...

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing...

More about this quote...

Growth for the...

Growth for the...

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Source: In Look...

More about this quote...

The primary distinction...

The primary distinction...

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must...

More about this quote...

Gutenberg made everybody...

Gutenberg made everybody...

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Source: In...

More about this quote...

Benjamin Franklin: Ambition has its...

Benjamin Franklin: Ambition has its...

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by...

More about this quote...

Edith Head: I have yet...

Edith Head: I have yet...

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals -- like Lassie.

More about this quote...

J B Priestley: I have always...

J B Priestley: I have always...

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic...

More about this quote...

George Farquhar: How a little...

George Farquhar: How a little...

How a little love and good company improves a woman!

Source: The Beaux' Stratagem,...

More about this quote...

Philip Massinger: I am driven<br>Into...

Philip Massinger: I am driven
Into...

I am driven
Into a desperate strait and cannot steer
A middle course.


Source:...

More about this quote...

Robert McNamara: One cannot fashion...

Robert McNamara: One cannot fashion...

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

Source: On...

More about this quote...

Christina of Sweden: As you know,...

Christina of Sweden: As you know,...

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to...

More about this quote...

Clara Barton: . . ....

Clara Barton: . . ....

. . . the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

More about this quote...

Edward Coke: Precaution is better...

Edward Coke: Precaution is better...

Precaution is better than cure.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

More about this quote...

While forbidden fruit...

While forbidden fruit...

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Source:...

More about this quote...

The most dangerous...

The most dangerous...

The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose.

More about this quote...

All politics takes...

All politics takes...

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a...

More about this quote...

It is not...

It is not...

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

Source: On Compromise,...

More about this quote...

Page 245 of 2,002


(C)2024 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA