Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Mark Twain Quotes
TemptationCowardiceProtection There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
ReligionSpiritualityIndiaDiversity India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
WeatherObservationNatureSpring In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Self-AcceptanceSocietal PressureAuthenticity The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
IndividualityEccentricityCharacter She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
MindsetPerseveranceSelf-ControlOvercoming Adversity Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
HealthHopeAging Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
HonestyIntegrity George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
LifeDeathFearFulfillment The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
DesperationReliefProfanityPrayer Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
FlexibilityAdaptabilityPerspective I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
WorkPlayObligation Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
AdaptationPatienceChange A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
IgnoranceConfidenceSuccess All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
RespectSelf-Respect When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
CivilizationConsumerismExcessSociety Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
JoySharingCompanionship Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
HappinessAgingYouth Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
TruthFictionRealityPlausibility Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
WritingEditingConciseness 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.
Living WellImpactLegacyMeaningful Life Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
FriendshipReadingContentmentIdeal Life Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
PoliticsSatireGovernmentCorruption There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
SilenceWisdomPrudence It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
PotentialDiscoveryTalentSelf-awareness Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
UnderstandingTruthChallengeResponsibility It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
EducationHygieneLong-term ImpactSocietal Change Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
CharacterLanguageCommunication A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
PreparationDiligenceEffort It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.