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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
Motivational, Perseverance, Determination
Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson
Life, Motivational, Confidence
Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works”, p.500

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Samuel Johnson
Life, Motivational, Achievement
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.108

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Samuel Johnson
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Samuel Johnson
Motivational, Fitness, Food
In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 467 (5 August 1763)

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

Samuel Johnson
Inspirational, Motivational, Men
Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.173, Canongate Books

For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Samuel Johnson
Motivational, Joy, Wish
"The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler".

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