Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Monday – January 25, 2021
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
“But such is human life. Here today and gone tomorrow. A dream — a shadow — a ripple on the water — a thing for invisible gods to sport with for a season and then toss idly by — idly by. It is rough.” Mark Twain, “Closed Out” sketch, included in San Francisco letter to Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1/28/1866
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” Mark Twain
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” Mark Twain
“Booker T. Washington, a man worth a hundred Roosevelts, a man whose shoe-latchets Mr. Roosevelt is not worthy to untie.” Mark Twain
“It is curious — curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.” 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 starting on the first one.” Mark Twain