Mark Twain Quotes

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Prison matures you.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

Change is hard. A lot of times, at the end of films, even if they're amazing, I look back, and I'm like, 'I don't think anyone changed,' and that's an important thing to see.

If you're going to become a better person, do it in high school.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.