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May these quotes about Mark inspire and motivate you.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Mark Twain
If Christ were here now there is one thing
he would not be - a Christian.
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
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