Amazing Mark Twain Quotes on Life , success, happiness and kindness
1) ”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.” – Mark Twain
2) ”The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”-Mark Twain
3) ”With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.”-Mark Twain
4) ”Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life.”-Mark Twain
5) ”Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”-Mark Twain
6) ”The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”-Mark Twain
7) ”The man who does not read, has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”-Mark Twain
8) ”It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”-Mark Twain
9) ”Let us Endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”-Mark Twain
10) ”Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”- Mark Twain
11) ”The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”-Mark Twain
12) ”The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”- Mark Twain
13) ”If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”-Mark Twain
14) ”To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”-Mark Twain
15)”Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”-Mark Twain
16) ”Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”-Mark Twain
17) ”I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”-Mark Twain
18) ”A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”-Mark Twain
19) ”You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”-Mark Twain
20) ”Always obey your parents when they are present.”-Mark Twain
21) ”Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitious . Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”-mark Twain
22) ”The lack of money is the root of all evil.”-Mark Twain
23) ”Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”-Mark Twain
24) ”Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”-Mark Twain
25) ”Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”-Mark Twain
26) ”A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”-Mark Twain
27) ”Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” -Mark Twain
28) ”Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”-Mark Twain
29) ”Never put off till tomorrow what may be done the day after tomorrow just as well.”-Mark Twain
30) ”A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”-Mark Twain
31) ”Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”-Mark Twain
32) ”It is wiser to find out than suppose.”-Mark Twain
33) ”The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”-Mark Twain
34) ”Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life.”-Mark Twain
35) ”Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.”-Mark Twain
36) ”Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”-Mark Twain
37) ”Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”-Mark Twain
38) ”Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”-Mark Twain
39) ”I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.”-Mark Twain
40) ”Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”-Mark Twain
41) ”The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”-Mark Twain
42) ”We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”-Mark Twain
43) ”Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.”-Mark Twain
44) ”It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”-Mark Twain
45) ”A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”-Mark Twain
46) ”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
47) ”I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”-Mark Twain
48) ”When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.”-Mark Twain
49) ”Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.”Mark Twain
50) ”To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”Mark Twain
51) ”If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.””-Mark Twain
52) ”I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.”-Mark Twain
53) ”The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”-Mark twain
54) ”When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”-Mark Twain
55) ”Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.”-Mark Twain
56) ”If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”-Mark Twain
57) ”Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”-Mark Twain
58) ”There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.”-Mark Twain
59) ”The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”-Mark Twain
60) ”The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.”-Mark Twain
61) ”an is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”-Mark Twain
62) ”A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”-Mark Twain
63) ”Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”-Mark Twain
64) ”Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”-Mark Twain
65) ”Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”-Mark Twain
66) ”Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”-Mark Twain
67) ”Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”-Mark Twain
68) ”Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”-Mark Twain
69) ”The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”- Mark Twain
70) ”Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”-Mark Twain
71) ”Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”-Mark Twain
72) ”Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”-Mark Twain
73) ”Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”-Mark Twain
74) ”Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”-Mark Twain
75) ”Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”-Mark Twain
76) ”Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.”-Mark Twain
77) ”His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”-Mark Twain
78) ”Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”-Mark Twain
79) ”Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”-Mark Twain
80) ”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
81) ”A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”-Mark Twain
82 ”The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”-Mark Twain
83) ”Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”-Mark Twain
84) ”Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most”-Mark Twain
85) ”Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”-Mark Twain
86) ”Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.”-Mark Twain
87) ”Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”-Mark Twain
88) ”Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”-Mark Twain
89) ”Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”-Mark Twain
90) ”Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.”-Mark Twain
91) ”When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”-Mark Twain
92) ”Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”-Mark Twain
93) ”Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.”-Mark Twain
94) ”You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”-Mark Twain
95) ”Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”-Mark Twain
96) ”The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”-Mark Twain
97) ”The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”-Mark Twain
98) ”The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”-Mark Twain
99) ”The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.”-Mark Twain
100) ”Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.”-Mark Twain
101) ”I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.”-Mark Twain
102) ”Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”-Mark Twain
103) ”Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”-Mark Twain
104) ”Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”-Mark Twain
105) ”Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.”-Mark Twain
106) ”If you have nothing to say, say nothing.”-Mark Twain
107) ”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
108) ”There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”-Mark Twain
109) ”Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.”-Mark Twain
110) ”If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”-Mark Twain
111) ”Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.”-Mark Twain
