Mark Twain

Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Losing is tough.

When you’re successful, things have a momentum and you can’t tell if you have created the momentum or it’s creating you.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

I don’t cheat to win, I’d rather lose.

It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.

It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.