Inspirational Quotes Mark Twain

Mark Twain
1835 - 1910
American Author

About Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty.

Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."



An inspirational collection of quotes and sayings by the famous author, Mark Twain. You will find quotes and sayings to make you smile, you will find quotes to inspire you, and quotes for you to reflect upon.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
~Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~Mark Twain

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

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
~Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
~Mark Twain

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
~Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
~Mark Twain

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
~Mark Twain

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
~Mark Twain

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles - by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
~Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
~Mark Twain

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
~Mark Twain

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
~Mark Twain

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
~Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
~Mark Twain

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
~Mark Twain

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~Mark Twain

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
~Mark Twain

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
~Mark Twain

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
~Mark Twain

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
~Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~Mark Twain

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
~Mark Twain

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.
~Mark Twain

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
~Mark Twain

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
~Mark Twain

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
~Mark Twain

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

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
~Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
~Mark Twain

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
~Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
~Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
~Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
~Mark Twain

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~Mark Twain

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
~Mark Twain

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
~Mark Twain

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.
~Mark Twain

Inspirational Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt
1858 - 1919
26th President of the United States

About Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He is most famous for his personality: his energy, his vast range of interests and achievements, his model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" personality. Originating from a story from one of Roosevelt's hunting expeditions, Teddy bears are named after him.

As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt prepared for and advocated war with Spain in 1898. He organized and helped command the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment – the Rough Riders – during the Spanish-American War. Returning to New York as a war hero, he was elected governor. An avid writer, his 35 books include works on outdoor life, natural history, the American frontier, political history, naval history, and his autobiography.

In 1901, as Vice President, the 42-year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley after McKinley's assassination by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He is the youngest person to become President. He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a "trust buster". He was clear, however, to show he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle but was only against corrupt, illegal practices. His "Square Deal" promised a fair shake for both the average citizen (through regulation of railroad rates and pure food and drugs) and the businessmen. He was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance. As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906 he attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions. In 1910, he broke with his friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft, but lost the Republican nomination to Taft and ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose ticket. He beat Taft in the popular vote and pulled so many Progressives out of the Republican Party that Democrat Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, and the conservative faction took control of the Republican Party for the next two decades.

Roosevelt negotiated for the U.S. to take control of the Panama Canal and its construction in 1904; he felt the Canal's completion was his most important and historically significant international achievement. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize, winning its Peace Prize in 1906, for negotiating the peace in the Russo-Japanese War.

Historian Thomas Bailey, who disagreed with Roosevelt's policies, nevertheless concluded, "Roosevelt was a great personality, a great activist, a great preacher of the moralities, a great controversialist, a great showman. He dominated his era as he dominated conversations....the masses loved him; he proved to be a great popular idol and a great vote getter. "His image stands alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore. Roosevelt has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.



The famous Theodore Roosevelt has inspired many. Enjoy this collection of inspirational quotes from Mr Roosevelt.

Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
~Theodore Roosevelt

In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I am only an average man but, by George,
I work harder at it than the average man.
~Theodore Roosevelt

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
~Theodore Roosevelt

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.
The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert.
The leader leads, and the boss drives.
~Theodore Roosevelt

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
~Theodore Roosevelt

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind,
but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
~Theodore Roosevelt

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
~Theodore Roosevelt

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.
~Theodore Roosevelt

In life as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I am a part of everything that I have read.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
~Theodore Roosevelt

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Get action.
Seize the moment.
Man was never intended to become an oyster.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who never makes a mistake
is the man who never does anything.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884 - 1962
American Human Rights Activist, Diplomat

About Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an internationally prominent author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.

In the 1940s, Roosevelt was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

Active in politics for the rest of her life, Roosevelt chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's ground-breaking committee which helped start second-wave feminism, the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. She was one of the most admired people of the 20th century, according to Gallup's List of Widely Admired People.



Enjoy these inspirational quotes filled with common sense from Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along".
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding is a two-way street.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational Quotes By Plato

Plato
427 BC - 347 BC
Greek Philosopher

About Plato
Plato (427/428 BC – 347/348 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.

Plato's sophistication as a writer can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious. Although there is little question that Plato lectured at the Academy that he founded, the pedagogical function of his dialogues, if any, is not known with certainty. The dialogues since Plato's time have been used to teach a range of subjects, mostly including philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects about which he wrote.



Old, but famous inspirational quotes and sayings from Plato. While these sayings and quotes were said many years ago, the wisdom of Platos words still apply today.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
~Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
~Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
~Plato

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
~Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~Plato

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
~Plato

Never discourage anyone.....who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
~Plato

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
~Plato

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
~Plato

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
~Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
~Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
~Plato

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
~Plato

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
~Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
~Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.
~Plato

Friends have all things in common.
~Plato

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
~Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation.
~Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
~Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
~Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
~Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
~Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
~Plato

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
~Plato

Life must be lived as play.
~Plato

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
~Plato