Mark Twain Quotations:

Famous Words of Inspiration

Mark Twain quotations that are inspirational, motivational, and life-transforming.

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

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.

Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.

To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken.

Circumstances make men, not man circumstances.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

The principle differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

We ignore and never mention the Sole Impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.

Remember the poor - it costs nothing.

You can't pray a lie.

Reflection is the beginning of reform.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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

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