Mark Twain Quotes About Motivational
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
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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.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started
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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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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.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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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.
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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
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