Mark Twain

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People fall into three categories:
Those who make things happen.
Those who watch things happen.
Those who are left to ask what did happen.

If you think you can, you can.
If you think you can't, you're right.

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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

There are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason.

Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear.

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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.

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain quotes: Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.