Author: Samuel Johnson

Quotes

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

- Samuel Johnson

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

- Samuel Johnson

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

- Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

- Samuel Johnson

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

- Samuel Johnson

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

- Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

- Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

- Samuel Johnson

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