Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
self society requirements
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.
dog selfish war
Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.
philosophical passion self
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
men self approval-of-others
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.
self-esteem men average
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.
self-esteem facts difficult
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
single loyalty self
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
confidence self-esteem positive-thinking
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
self self-respect compliment
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
death thinking self
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.
self media america
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
approval-of-others self people
Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.
ignorance self perception
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.
art men self
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!