Quotes & Sayings About Leadership Mark Twain

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence. — Samuel Johnson

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life. — Debi Thomas

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught. — Mark Twain

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education. — Mark Twain

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice. — Mark Twain

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. — Ludwig Von Mises

He had a particularly deliberate way of speaking that made him sound as if he had thought up his sentences several minutes ago and was only now getting around to saying them. — Charles Baxter

The only advantage he could see in the change was that he had a small desk in his room; his capacity for isolation was thereby increased. But none of this changed his life very much. He continued his games of billiards and his reading. And was periodically overwhelmed by abominable fits of despair from which he was abruptly extricated by a ridiculous but stubborn optimism, an absurd love of life. — Raymond Queneau

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. — Mark Twain