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Biography - Mark Twain:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer.
Born: 1835 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
United States

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Tout ce dont nous avons besoin pour réussir dans la vie est l'ignorance et la confiance.

German
Alles, was man zum Leben braucht, ist Ignoranz und Selbstvertrauen.




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They succeed, because they think they can.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: self-confidence


Quotes

Quotes about self-confidence:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Self-trust is the first secret of success.







Quotes for: success


Quotes

Quotes for: success


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.





A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.





The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.





Action is the foundational key to all success.





I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.





People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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Quotes for: ignorance


Quotes

Quotes about ignorance:


The opposite of humility is pride, and all pride is ignorance.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





All I know is that I know nothing.





Ignorance is the mother of all evils.





I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.





Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.











Quotes

Mark Twain also said...


Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.





It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.





Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.





Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.





If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.





The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.












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