Inspirational Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- To strive with difficulties,
and to conquer them,
is the highest human felicity.
- Our business in life is not to get ahead of others,
but to get ahead of ourselves,
to break our own records,
to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
- Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said,
'I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.'
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,
and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- He who waits to do a great deal of good at once,
will never do anything.
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
- We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it is possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
- Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Life's a short summer, man a flower;
He dies - alas! how soon he dies.
- Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.