Samuel Johnson Quotes
Browse 8 quotes from Samuel Johnson, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”
“Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.”
“What is easy is seldom excellent.”
“Courage is the greatest of all the virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
“Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.”
