Mark Twain's Life Lessons to Learn in Youth and Avoid Regrets in Old Age #motivation #motivational

[Music] never argue with stupid people they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience keep away from people who try to belittle your Ambitions small people people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great 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 [Music] anything loyalty to Country always loyalty to to government when it deserves it do not complain about growing old it is a privilege

denied to many kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see it's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is almost always right [Music] by trying we can easily learn to endure [Music] adversity noise proves nothing often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option the most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why the

more I learn about people the more I like my dog wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been be careful about reading Health books you may die of a [Music] misprint the worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world I know because I've done it thousands of times when your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look it's a sure sign you're getting old no woman or man really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a

century if everyone was satisfied with himself there would be no Heroes you meet people who forget you you forget the people you meet but sometimes you meet those people you can't forget those are your [Music] friends concerning the difference between man and the jackass some observers hold that there isn't any but this wrongs the jackass in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain the man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot [Music] read April 1st this

is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other 364 a banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute minute it begins to rain always acknowledge fault frankly this will throw those in Authority off guard and give you an opportunity to make a [Music] choice the fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot life is short

break the rules for give quickly and kiss slowly love truly laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile the lack of money is the root of all evil always obey your parents when they are present this is the best policy in the long run because if you don't they will make you worrying is like paying a debt you don't [Music] owe the fear of death follows from the fear of Life a man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time [Music] get your facts first and then you can distort them as

much as you [Music] please 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 when I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around but when I got to be 21 I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 [Music] years a sin takes on new and real Terrors when there seems a chance that it is going to be found [Music] out a sound heart is

a sure guide than an ill-trained conscience only two things will regret on deathbed that we are a little loved and little traveled there is no such thing as an ordinary [Music] life memories which someday will become all beautiful when the Lost annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our [Music] minds conscience takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insights there are several good protections against Temptations but the shest is [Music] cowardice never argue with a fool onlookers may not be able to tell the [Music] difference name the greatest of

all inventors accident virtue has never been as respectable as money few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits any emotion if it is sincere is involuntary 20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do there's no easy or quick plan to happiness there is no single spot where you can start where you are right now is the best place to [Music] begin everyone is the moon and has a

dark side which he never shows to anybody of all the animals man is the only one that is cruel he is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing [Music] it circumstances make man not man circumstances man was made at the end of the week's work when God was [Music] tired the truth must be served like a coat and not thrown in the face like a wet [Music] towel the trouble is not in dying for a friend but in finding a friend Worth Dying For It is strange the way the ignorant and

inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail all you need in this life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure let us live so that when we come to die even the Undertaker will be sorry the secret to getting ahead is getting started always do what is right it will gratify half of mankind and Astound the other don't go around saying the world owes you a living the world owes you nothing it was here first man will do many things to get himself loved he would do all

things to get himself envied one frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is off to considerable acquaintance with her it's better to keep your mouth shut and stupid then open it and remove all doubt the man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it he knows too [Music] little my experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the shest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an

[Music] obligation forgiveness is the fragrance that the Violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it if you have to swallow a frog don't stare at it too long the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather [Music] not by land they're not making it [Music] anymore do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain my works are like water The Works of the great Masters

are like wine but everyone drinks water I do not fear death I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it a half truth is the most cowardly of Lies when you fish for love bait with your heart not your brain do right and you will be conspicuous it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled a man should not be without morals it is better to have bad morals than none at all better a broken promise than

none at all courage is resistance to fear Mastery of fear not absence of fear action speaks louder than words but not nearly as [Music] often how little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it a man may have no bad habits and have [Music] worse we can secure other people's approval if we do it right and try hard but our own is worth a hundred of it and no way has been found out of securing that the human human race has only one really effective weapon and that is [Music]

laughter if you don't read the newspaper you're uninformed if you read the newspaper you're misinformed work like you don't need the money dance like no one is watching and love like you've never been hurt as soon as one is at rest in this world he goes on something else to worry about the secret source of humor itself is not Joy but sorrow honesty the best of all the lost arts when angry count to four when very angry [Music] s politicians and diapers must be changed often and for the same [Music] reason a wise man silently

cuts off three types of people those who borrow and never return those who promise and never deliver and those who listen but never [Music] hear the right word may be effective but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed [Music] pause a good lawyer knows the law a clever one takes the judge to lunch when people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man respects himself much a clear conscience is the short sign of a bad memory [Music]