Mark Twain Quotes

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

I have never compared myself to anyone, but it's hard to resist him!!

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.