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Mark Twain Quotes about Motivational

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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Motivational, Perfection, Improvement

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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Motivational, Educational, Two

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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?

Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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.

Motivational, Cute, Truth

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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.

Motivational, Positive, Pain

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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.

Funny, Motivational, Business

Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen (1997). “The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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.

Love, Funny, Motivational

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Motivational, Forbidden Love, Temptation

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Motivational, Meaningful, Play

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.523, Courier Corporation

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

Life, Motivational, Baby

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Motivational, Truth, Lying

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Funny, Motivational, Business

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Motivational, Success, Travel

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Inspirational, Motivational, Hero

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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