Mark Twain Quotes

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

You can be happy when you feel happy from inside, and when you have worked, you are your happiest.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her.

I'm the most chill person I know...I'm happy with myself...I'm not perfect, but I'm cool with that.

If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

It's really about being pleased with yourself.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.