7 Samuel Langhorne Clemens Quotes on Motivation

Samuel Langhorne Clemens quotes on motivation

69. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

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.

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.

192. They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!

211. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.