This document contains short quotes and sayings attributed to various authors such as Mark Twain and Elvis Presley. The quotes discuss themes like overcoming fear through courage, keeping one's mouth shut to avoid embarrassment, maintaining health through discipline, telling the truth even in doubt, and that truth cannot be avoided forever. The final quote is from Clint Eastwood and suggests that effort and actions determine outcomes in life.

1. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

2. Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

3. It is better to keep your mouth closed
and let people think you are a fool
than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

4. It is better
to keep your mouth closed
and let people think you are a fool
than to open it and remove
all doubt.
Mark Twain

5. 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 not.
Mark Twain

6. When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain

7. Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time,
but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley

8. A person who won't read has no advantage over
one who can't read.
Mark Twain

9. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear
and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

10. What you put into life is what you get out of it.
Clint Eastwood