Mark Twain Quotes About Success

• The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational
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  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

• 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

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

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

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Success, Carpe Diem

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

• Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Sarcastic

• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.356, Courier Corporation

• I can live for two months on a good compliment.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9066, Delphi Classics

• A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Education

• All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

  Mark Twain

  Success, Confidence, Congratulations

• To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Success

• There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

  Mark Twain

  Success, Your Best Friend

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Success, Travel

• 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

• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Smart

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation

• The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

  Mark Twain

  Success, People, Secret

• Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

• We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

  Mark Twain

  Success, Men, Race

• What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Life, Success

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