Motivational Quotes

A man cannot be comfortable

without his own approval.

Never pick a fight with people

who buy ink by the barrel.

Go to Heaven for the climate,

Hell for the company.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles,

but most of them never happened.

In the first place,

God made idiots.

That was for practice.

Then he made school boards.

I didn't attend the funeral,

but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.

A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence,

and then success is sure.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something

he can learn in no other way.

Suppose you were an idiot,

and suppose you were a member of Congress;

but I repeat myself.

Age is an issue of mind over matter.

If you don't mind,

it doesn't matter.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,

it is time to pause and reflect.

If you tell the truth,

you don't have to remember anything.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Get your facts first,

then you can distort them as you please.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,

it's the size of the fight in the dog.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think

you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

God may be subtle,

but he isn't plain mean.

That deep emotional conviction of

the presence of a superior reasoning power,

which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe,

forms my idea of God.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond

the reach of exact prediction

because of the variety of factors in operation,

not because of any lack of order in nature.