Mark Twain Quotes About Achievement

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

• I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Achievement, Glad

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• It is easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Achievement, Smoking

  Following the Equator ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Work

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

• Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

  Mark Twain

  Teamwork, Achievement, Team Building

• To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Light, Ideas

• Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Character, Pride

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7193, Delphi Classics

• Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

  Mark Twain

  Worthwhile Things, Accomplishment, Achievement

• ...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

  Mark Twain

  Achievement, Firsts, Dollars

  Mark Twain (2015). “Roughing It: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.327, 谷月社

• When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Judging, Achievement

  Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.265, Univ of California Press

• To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Achievement, Squandering

  Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.182, Univ of California Press

• That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Mountain Ranges, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.177, 谷月社

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