Mark Twain Quotes

It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Self respect beats social approval, every time.

Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need other people saying that you're good in order to be good.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

I feel like you constantly have to prove why you deserve to continue to exist.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.