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Mark Twain Quotes about Effort

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

Journey, Effort, Destination

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children, Effort, Parent

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Inspiration, Effort, Special

I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.

Girl, Fall, Effort

Mark Twain “Carnival of Crime in Ct”, Library of Alexandria

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Men, Effort, Found

Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”

I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.

Opportunity, Thinking, Effort

Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.342, Penguin

If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

Men, Effort, Forgiving

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

Science, Accomplishment, Effort

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