Mark Twain Quotes

“They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.”

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“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.”

“Worrying is like paying interest on a debt you may never owe.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

“Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”

“It's better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.”

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

“A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“What is the secret of success? Right Decisions. How do you make the right decisions? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decisions.”

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”