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, 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.
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.