8 Mark Twain Quotes on Motivation

Mark Twain quotes on motivation

71. Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

83. Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

91. The pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main thing they had come for had ceased to exist, they didn't do as horses or cats or angle-worms would probably have done - turn back and get at something profitable - no, anxious as they had before been to see the miraculous fountain, they were as much as forty times as anxious now to see the place where it had used to be. There is no accounting for human beings.

103. It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

133. It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. It is done in love, or it is done in fear; I do not know which it is. No matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is beyond imagination marvelous to our kind of people, the cold whites.

140. I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

174. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

177. 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.