Mark Twain
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Keep away from small 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.
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 by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
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.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
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.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
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Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
The time is always right to do what is right.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Love is the only rational act.
Never seek to tell thy love. Love that never told can be, for the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We have not yet begun to fight.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Success is never wondering what if.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
I'm Multi-Dimensional !
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Better late than never.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
I'll have what she's having.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
What a dump.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Believe in yourself.
Roll with the punches.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
He who hesitates is lost.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Our love is here to stay.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
One man with courage is a majority.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
A woman who is loved always has success.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
We will either find a way or make one.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
No involvement, no commitment.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying. Because it was he, because it was me.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
It's showtime !
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition , giving up is what makes it permanent.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.