Quotes and sayings from Mark Twain

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first"

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

"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."

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

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"

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

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten"

"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded"

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug"

"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter"

"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"

"All generalizations are false including this one"

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