Mark Twain Quotes About Winning

• what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

  Mark Twain

  Loss, Winning, Appreciate

• 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

• Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Inspirational Life, Fighting

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1923). “The Writings of Mark Twain”

• As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child.

  Mark Twain

  Appreciation, Children, Winning

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

• God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

  Mark Twain

  Winning, Knowing, Rewards

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