Top 25 Quotes by Mark Twain of 2407 - Page 2

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.

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.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

Mark Twain

People, Joy

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Mark Twain

Life, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

Mark Twain

Age, Aging, Remember

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

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

Mark Twain

Men, Thinking, Average

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Mark Twain

Optimism, Sometimes, Pessimist

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

Love, Inspirational, Life

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Mark Twain

Kind, Persons

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

Inspirational, Life, Bullying

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

Mark Twain

Believe, Taught

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

Mark Twain

Motivational, Educational, Two

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Mark Twain

Liberty, Danger, Congress

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

Mark Twain

Funny, Hilarious, Witty

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

Mark Twain

Ignorance, World, Bliss

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Mark Twain

Nails, Hammers, Tools

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

Mark Twain

Men, Average, Common

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

Mark Twain

Criticism, Criticize, Ifs

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

Mark Twain

Pride, Trouble, Temper

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

Mark Twain

Dream, Focus, Doubt

We have the best government that money can buy.

Mark Twain

Funny, Sarcastic, Money

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Mark Twain

Kings, Civilization, People

Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers