“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?
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
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
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
“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
Today we celebrate Mark Twain’s birthday in our own, favorite way: sharing quotes. Let me show you some wonderful inspirational Mark Twain Quotes.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah… didn’t miss the boat.
Let me make your day better with some funny anger quotes selected just for you.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? – Sydney J. Harris
Get mad, then get over it. – Colin Powell
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. – Malachy McCourt
Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger. – Sweetpea Tyler
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. – Seneca
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. – Mark Twain
The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong. – Wilson Mizner
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: ‘I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.’ When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. – Epictetus
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. – Albert Einstein
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. – Booker T. Washington
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Golda Meir
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Expressing anger is a form of public littering. – Willard Gaylin
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. – Daniel Webster
Anger should never be an overnight guest. – Neal A. Maxwell
He is a fool who cannot be angry; – Seneca
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness. – William Arthur Ward
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. – Will Rogers
Can you, please, choose your favorite and write it down in the comments section? Thank you!
1. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself – George Bernard Shaw
2. 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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain
3. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant – Robert Louis Stevenson
4. We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are – Talmud
5. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back – Arthur Rubinstein
6. The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be – Marcel Pagnol
7. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu
8. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive – Howard Thurman
9. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. 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
11. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been – Wayne Gretzky
12. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional – Anony-mouse
13. Every man dies. Not every man really lives – William Ross Wallace
14. Life isn’t a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ‘Woohoo WHAT A RIDE’! – Unknown
15. There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle – Albert Einstein
16. Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security – John Allen Paulos
17. You are not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor should you feel the world must live up to yours – F Perl
18. How you do one thing, is how you do everything. Be aware. – Unknown
19. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing – Helen Keller
20. Life is not about kissing ass, it’s about kicking ass! – Unknown
21. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it – Henry David Thoreau
22. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself – Harvey Fierstein
23. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are – John Wooden
24. In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away – Shing Xiong
25. Breathe. It’s just a bad day. Not a bad life – Unknown
1. “Before you try and change the world, let the world change you.” -Semester at Sea Saying
2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” -Helen Keller
3. “The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me… and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different… and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it…” -Bear Grylls
4. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”-Dr. Seuss
5. “Everything I’m not make me everything I am.” -Kanye West
6. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”-James Dean
7. “In life, anything worth taking seriously is worth poking fun at.” -Author Unknown
8. “A man’s actions are a direct testament of his thoughts (live adventurously).”-Author Unknown
9. “However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”-Henry David Thoreau
10. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”-Barack Obama
11. “Put a ding in the universe.” -Steve Jobs
12. “Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.” -Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter
13. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”-Oprah
14. “I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn’t.” -Johnny Knoxville
15. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” -Dr. Seuss
16. “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” -Dr. Seuss
17. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” -G.K Chesterton
18. “All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.”-Sally Ride
19. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” -Nikki Giovanni
20. “I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”-Vincent Van Gogh
21. ”You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.” -Lady Gaga
22. “Nothing is really ‘safe’.” -Bam Margera
23. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather
24. “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”-Alan Sachs
25. “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
“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” – Unknown
“Sometimes I think a soulmate is someone who will make you be the most «YOU» that you can possibly be” – Unknown
“Never sacrifice who you are just because someone has a problem with it.” – Unknown
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.” – Unknown
“Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are.” – Unknown
“In 20 years, you will be more dissapointed by what you didn’t do than what you did.” – Mark Twain
“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.” – George Scialabba
“Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too.” – Unknown