Inspirational Quotations by Samuel Johnson

  • It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
    From Issue 10
  • To strive with difficulties,
    and to conquer them,
    is the highest human felicity.
    From Issue 57
  • 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.
    From Issue 75
  • Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said,
    'I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.'
    From Issue 175
  • Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
    From Issue 263
  • Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
    From Issue 278
  • Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,
    and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
    From Issue 281
  • He who waits to do a great deal of good at once,
    will never do anything.
    From Issue 304

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