Mark Twain Quotes About Success
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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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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 seven years.
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first
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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
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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.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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