Mark Twain Quotes About Hard Work

• You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Organization, Done

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1034, Jazzybee Verlag

• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

  Mark Twain

  Zero, Hard Work, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.280, Xist Publishing

• Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Writing, Apprenticeship

  Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen (1997). “The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

• Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Successful, Blow

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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