All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “Achievement”

“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.”
“I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.”
“It is easier to stay out than get out.”
“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
“Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.”
“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
“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.”
“...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".”
“When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.”
“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.”
“That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.”

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