Tag: Mark Twain

30 Inspiring, Adventure and Life Quotes

Posted on July 22, 2012July 23, 2012 by

1. “Nothing is really ‘safe’.” –Bam Margera

2. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather

3. “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”-Alan Sachs

4. “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

5. “Security is mostly a superstition.”-Helen Keller

6. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” –W.M. Lewis

7. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.”-George Eliot

8. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” –Audrey Hepburn

9. “Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”-Yogi Berra

10. “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. “-Lady Gaga

11. “The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.”-Joseph Campell

12. “…adventures don’t come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them.” –Unknown Author

13. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” –Michael Jackson

14. “If at first you don’t succeed so much for skydiving.” –Ninja Turtles

15. “If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.“-Samuel L. Jackson

16. “Embrace yourself for who you are…and then go jump off a cliff in a squirrel suit.”-Author Unknown

17. “What happens in Vegas, I’m telling everyone.” –Dane Cook

18. “You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don’t have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.”-George Lucas

19. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”-Samuel Beckett

20. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”-Pearl S. Buck

21. “Don’t react. Live.” –Author Unknown

22. “Fortes fortuna adiuvat. (Fortune favors the brave).”-Author Unknown

23. “In the wake of yawning decadence, fearless Thou shalt be!” – Anonymous Poem

24. “People are creating the future, right now. What are you doing?”-Warren Kimmel

25. “The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.” –Author Unknown

26. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” –Abraham Lincoln

27. “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”-T.S. Elliot

28. “My life is my message.”-Ghandi

29. “Make your life a mission – not an intermission.” –Author Unknown

30. “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.” – Deepak Chopra

20 Interesting Quotes

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

1. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. —Albert Einstein

2. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. —Susan Erz

3. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. —Pablo Picasso

4. A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! —Pablo Sarasate

5. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. —Don Herold

6. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. —Michael Althsuler

7. The little I know I owe to my ignorance. —Orville Mars

8. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —George Bernard Shaw

9. In God we trust; all others bring data. —Dr. W. Edwards Deming

10. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. —Mark Twain

11. Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. —Mark Twain

12. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

13. Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. —Dee Hock

14. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. —Albert Einstein

15. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.—Dwight D. Eisenhower

16. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. —Niels Bohr

17. Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them. —Unknown Author

18. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. —Arthur Schopenhauer

19. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. —Harry Truman

20. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. —Martin H. Fischer

Weekend Inspirational Quotes

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do” – John Wooden

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore” – Christopher Columbus

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” – Confucius

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed” – Henrik Ibsen

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities” – J.K. Rowling

“If you are going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all” – Oscar Wilde

“You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.” – Joan Baez

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us” – Helen Keller

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” – Albert Einstein

“If you want to be happy, be” – Leo Tolstoy

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest” – Mark Twain

“We must be the change we want to see” – Gandhi

“The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity” – Ulysses S. Grant

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting” – Elizabeth Bibesco

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of conflict and controversy” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snow flake” – M.B. Ray

“I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again” – Etienne de Grellet

“This above all: To your own self, be true” – William Shakespeare

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting” – E.E. Cummings

“In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life: It goes on” – Robert Frost

Quotes about being angry

Posted on May 18, 2012May 18, 2012 by

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Get mad, then get over it.” ~Colin Powell

“If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.” ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

“You can’t get a pay raise when you’re angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.” – Stuart Wilde

“When Anger arises, think of the consequences.” – Confucius

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca

“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.” – Phyllis Diller

“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves.” – Mitch Albom

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.” – Aristotle

“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” – Epictetus

“The best answer to anger is silence.” – Marcus Aurelius

“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.” – Cherie Carter-Scott

“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.” – Joan Lunden

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?” – Khalil Gibran

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese Proverb

“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

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” – Alfred A. Montapert

Top 10 Mark Twain Quotes Infographic

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

1. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
2. Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
3. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
4. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
5. I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of wich actually happened.
6. Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.
7. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
8. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
9. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
10. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Top 5 Mark Twain Quotes

Posted on January 30, 2012January 30, 2012 by

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

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

In 20 years, you will be more dissapointed by what you didn’t do than by what you did.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

That’s all. Which was your favorite?

50 Best Inspirational Quotes

Posted on January 10, 2012January 10, 2012 by

1. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.” – Wallace Wattles

3. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

4. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

5. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

6. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

7. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

8. “You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison

9. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

10. “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.” – Wallace Wattles

11. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

12. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen Covey

13. “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

14. ”Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – Winston Churchill

15. “Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel Stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.” – Dara Henderson

16. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world” – Nelson Mandela

18. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

19. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

20. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

21. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

22. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

23. “I have learned that it’s not WHAT I have in my life but WHO I have in my life that counts.” – Unknown

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

25. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

26. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

27. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe

28. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined” – Henry James

29. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers

31. “Try not. Do or do not. There is no Try.” – Yoda (Star Wars!)

32. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

33. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind” – Brian Tracy

35.“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

37. “When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.” – Estee Lauder

38. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

39. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

40. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

41. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

42. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

44. “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

45. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

46. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

47. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

48. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

49. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

50. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Best Quotes by Famous People

Posted on December 31, 2011January 3, 2012 by

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. – Pablo Picasso

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former – Albert Einstein

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. – George Burns

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. –Samuel Johnson

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Alva Edison

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. – John D. Rockefeller

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. – Theodore Roosevelt

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. – Robert Frost

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – John F. Kennedy

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. – Seneca

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. – Honore de Balzac

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning – Aristotle Onassis

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – M.K. Gandhi

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. – Mark Twain

“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.” – Gloria Leonard

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.- Mark Twain

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say i- Voltaire

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity. – G.B. Shaw

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. – Will Durant

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage Quotes

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

1. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. – Tom Krause

2. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. – Sven Goran Eriksson

3. The key to change… is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash

4. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden

5. A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. – William Shedd

6. Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. – Mark Victor Hansen

7. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

8. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

9. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

10. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. – Paulo Coelho

11. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle

12. One determined person can make a significant difference; a small group of determined people can change the course of history. – Sonia Johnson

13. Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. – Bernadette Devlin

I Love Quotes

Posted on December 4, 2011December 4, 2011 by

“The question is not ‘Is there life after death?’ The question is, ‘Is there life before death?’” — Alan Cohen

“Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.” –Unknown

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.” — James Russell Lowel

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” –Unknown

“Tell your boss what you think of him, and the truth shall set you free.” – Unknown

“This above all; to thine own self be true.” — William Shakespeare

“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.” — Mark Twain

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only time a woman succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.” — Natalie Wood

“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin

“When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.” – Alan Cohen

“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.” –Paul Fix

“Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.” –Henry James

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” –Susan Erz

“Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead.” –Scottish Proverb

“If you’re going through Hell, keep going.” –Winston Churchill

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” –Anne Frank

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” –Mark Twain

“To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.” –Alan Cohen

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” –Noel Coward

“If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.” — Regina Brett

“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?” — Scott Adams

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” –Wayne Gretzky

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” –Will Rogers

“Doing your best in this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” –Oprah Winfrey