110 Mark Twain Quotes that Will Awaken Your Thoughts
Samuel Langhorne Clemens,known as name Mark Twain,born on 30 November 1835 was a great American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.His famous books are Adventure of Huckleberry Finn,The Adventure of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi,Roughing it etc.
He had miracle in his writing once Hemingway also wrote in the same essay:
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."
He inspired everyone from his books and Quotes.He saw many falls in life financially and on personal end.His life is an true inspiration for everyone. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain" died on April 21, 1910, at the age of 74 in Redding, Connecticut.
As all his Quotes are very famous and inspiring but it is difficult so share with you all in just one post,So here we compiled 110 Mark Twain Quotes that Will Awaken Your Thoughts. It is the collection from his various books and papers that will guide and motivate you in life.
1-Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
2-The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
3-Explore. Dream. Discover.
4-When all else fails,write what your heart tells you. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
5-Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
6-A good marriage is the union of the two good forgiveness.
7-Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
8-I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
9-Give everyday the chance to become the most beautiful of your life.
10-Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.
11-Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
12-The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
13-Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
14-Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
15-Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
16-The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
17-Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
18-It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
19-Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
20-A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
21-Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
22-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.
23-Never try to teach a pig to sing, you waste your time, and you annoy the pig.
24-To succeed in life, you need two things ignorance and confidence.
25-We are all in the gutter,but some of us are looking at the STARS.
26-Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly,Kiss slowly. Love truely. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.
27-I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
28-Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
29-It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
30-Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
31-The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
32-A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
33-The lack of money is the root of all evil.
34-A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
35-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.
36-Dont part with your illusions. When they are gone,you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
37-The two most important days in your life are day you are born and the day you find out why.
38-Dance like nobody's watching, Love like you've never been hurt.Sing like nobody's listening;live like its heaven on earth.
39-Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
40-When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
41-Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
42-The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
43-A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
44-The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
45-Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
46-A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
47-Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
48-The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
49-Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
50-Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
51-Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
52-The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
53-Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
54-My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water.
55-Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
56-The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
57-Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
58-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.
59-When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
60-Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
61-Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
62-If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
63-In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
64-Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
65-Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
66-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 man.
67-The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
68-Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
69-I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
70-History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
71-Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
72-To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
73-It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
74-Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
75-It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
76-Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
77-The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
78-Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
79-Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
80-Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
81-Golf is a good walk spoiled.
82-The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
83-Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
84-Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
85-There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
86-There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
87-Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
88-The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
89-Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
90-When in doubt tell the truth.
91-Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
92-It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
93-You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends.
94-If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
95-If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
96-To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
97-Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
98-Don't dream your life, but live your dream.
99-Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.
100-Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
101-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.
102-Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
103-Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.
104-Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
105-A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
106-If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
107-Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.
108-Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
109-Comparison is the death of joy.
110-Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.
Mark Twain one the best Author in history, its 100 years after his death still he is very famous and important in world Literature.His Humor stories still make us laugh.We also tried here to give you some Motivation and inspiration through these quotes. Hope these 110 Mark Twain Quotes that Will Awaken Your Thoughts have awaken your thinking.
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