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!


Clive Barker: It is sickness...

Clive Barker: It is sickness...

It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or...

More about this quote...

Channing Pollock: No man in...

Channing Pollock: No man in...

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

More about this quote...

E B White: A good farmer...

E B White: A good farmer...

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

More about this quote...

William Golding: Sleep is when...

William Golding: Sleep is when...

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high...

More about this quote...

William Golding: Novelists do not...

William Golding: Novelists do not...

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine...

More about this quote...

Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Source: From...

More about this quote...

Nella Larsen: Lies, injustice, and...

Nella Larsen: Lies, injustice, and...

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective...

More about this quote...

Norman Douglas: They who are...

Norman Douglas: They who are...

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

More about this quote...

Lisa Alther: Any mother could...

Lisa Alther: Any mother could...

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

More about this quote...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Faith and doubt both are needed -- not as antagonists, but working side by side -- to take us around the unknown...

More about this quote...

Lillian Smith: The human heart...

Lillian Smith: The human heart...

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that...

More about this quote...

Andre Gide: The want of...

Andre Gide: The want of...

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains...

More about this quote...

P G Wodehouse: She fitted into...

P G Wodehouse: She fitted into...

She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs...

More about this quote...

P G Wodehouse: It is a...

P G Wodehouse: It is a...

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take...

More about this quote...

Christopher Morley: Cherish all your...

Christopher Morley: Cherish all your...

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Alan Brien: The country is...

Alan Brien: The country is...

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Part of the...

Mark Twain: Part of the...

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Warm summer sun,...

Mark Twain: Warm summer sun,...

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind, blow softly here;
Green sod above, lie light, lie light...

More about this quote...

Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

More about this quote...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Source: In The Ultimate...

More about this quote...

Page 838 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA