Top 100 Make Mark Quotes
#1. Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.
George Herbert
#2. You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
George Clooney
#3. Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
Mark Haddon
#4. And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#5. So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
Mark Twain
#6. The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.
Steve Forbert
#8. Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
Mark Twain
#9. The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
Mark Steyn
#10. It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.
Toby Jones
#11. Only God can make the appointment, but only you can keep the appointment.
Mark Batterson
#12. When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When we try to make things easier, we usually make them harder. Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused.
Mark Batterson
#13. Satan will make many a fierce attack on your perseverance; it will be the mark for all his arrows.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
Kate Hudson
#16. You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
Kat Graham
#17. Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.
Mark Helprin
#18. So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea.
Charlotte Mason
#19. The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.
T. Colin Campbell
#20. Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
Mark Twain
#21. When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.
Mark Lanegan
#22. Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it.
Mark W. Boyer
#23. In any case I would cut myself a path to the throne even if some bastard-born herder had fathered me on a gutter-whore - genealogy can work for me or I can cut down the family tree and make a battering ram. Either way is good.
Mark Lawrence
#24. I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.
Mark Lawrence
#25. Authenticity isn't just something to say to make people applaud; it is the life you have done your best to live.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#26. I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.
Mark Ronson
#27. You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
Mark Takano
#28. I don't usually try to rely on songs to woo a girl, but I think Coldplay can get a girl in the mood ... or make her cry, one or the other. I used to play in cover bands; we sure did our fair share of Coldplay. I like 'Viva La Vida.'
Mark Salling
#29. Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#30. I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.
Mark Zuckerberg
#31. We tend to make the thing in the way the way.
Mark Nepo
#32. No you can't." "I can." "You can't." "Can!" "Can't!" An uncomfortable pause. Then Tom said: "What's your name?" "'Tisn't any of your business, maybe." "Well I 'low I'll MAKE it my business." "Well why don't you?" "If you say much, I will." "Much - much - MUCH. There now.
Mark Twain
#33. A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.
Mark Twain
#34. I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
Mark Helprin
#35. Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality
Mark Knopfler
#36. The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
Aristotle.
#37. I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.
Mark Wahlberg
#38. Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
Mark Twain
#39. Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.
Mark Lawrence
#40. An Act of Dissent is simply a way of saying, 'No, I do not accept this and, as my silence may be construed as acquiescence, I would like to make a small gesture to indicate that you can all go fuck yourselves.
Mark Thomas
#41. I admire Mark Zuckerberg ... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.
Steve Jobs
#42. I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.
Mark Shields
#43. That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.
Rick Riordan
#44. I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.
Mark Twain
#45. Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.
Mark Batterson
#46. Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.
Chrissie Wellington
#47. Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Mark Haddon
#48. I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.
Mark Bradford
#49. Ninety-five percent of the trading errors you are likely to make - causing the money to just evaporate before your eyes - will stem from your attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table. What I call the four primary trading fears.
Mark Douglas
#50. I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.
Mark Kozelek
#51. If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Will.i.am
#52. Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.
Mark Vonnegut
#53. I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.
Helen Mirren
#54. Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.
Mark Mason
#55. He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up.
Nora Roberts
#56. I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.
Mark Waters
#58. I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
Mark Twain
#59. Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark.
Joe Posnanski
#60. The numbers in Ohio as well as the rest of the nation make it clear that the African-American communities have been targeted and logic makes it clear that this did not happen coincidentally or unintentionally.
Mark Crutcher
#61. You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen with devotion and dedication. You can do it.
Mark LaMoure
#62. When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
Joni Mitchell
#63. My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.
Mark Vonnegut
#64. You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.
Mark Driscoll
#65. If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don't get upset when no one is around who's willing to give you a push.
Mark W. Boyer
#66. The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.
Mary Ellen Mark
#67. I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?
Mark Bradford
#68. I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.
Mark Pincus
#69. When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.
Jon Spaihts
#70. I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.
Mark Kozelek
#71. Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine.
Sara Quin
#72. There's shit that's random and shit you can control. It's up to you to choose what you'll react to and how to make your mark. What do you choose to control?
Cat Porter
#73. One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#74. I have sensitive skin, so I don't use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
Mark Teixeira
#75. I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.
Mary Ellen Mark
#76. All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.
Mark Twain
#77. The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.
Mark Hart
#78. I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I'm not interested in doing that. Give me a reason to fight, and I'll go there. But don't just make it, 'You touched my pen! Haaa-yah!' I've done that before.
Mark Dacascos
#79. I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.
Evelyn Lauder
#80. 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. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
Mark Twain
#81. The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values.
Doris Christopher
#82. He wanted to make her feel good. She couldn't remember the last time someone had done that. He
Mark Haddon
#83. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. Let me just say it like it is: If you don't have any problems, you don't have any potential. Here's why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you've been wounded.
Mark Batterson
#84. And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.
Mark Twain
#85. Some surveyors live for the work, putting in weeks or months at a time in remote locations. With a young family and hobbies that I'm passionate about, that isn't the path I've chosen. Like in many careers, you need to make your own decisions and follow your own path.
Mark Mason
#86. Don't make another's pain the source of your own happiness.
Mark Frost
#87. To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.
Robin Williams
#88. Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.
Mark Lawrence
#89. There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.
Mark Twain
#90. I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account.
Mark Billingham
#91. The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#92. One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can't cut any corners.
Mark Addy
#93. The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'
Mark Bradford
#94. Allow [Jesus] the access to that old nature through total surrender to Him and His Word. Once you do this without reservation, you will enter a new conquering lifestyle as well as a higher quality of life.
John 8:36
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Mark T. Barclay
#95. One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
Mark Twain
#96. People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.
Mark Goddard
#97. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
#98. Before you can expect to reach your potential and make your mark, you will be forced into isolation. You cannot conquer the world unless you first conquer yourself.
Neil Kennedy
#99. I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.
Nikki Rowe
#100. I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.
Mark Twain
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