Samuel Johnson Quotes
Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Related topics: Positive Motivational Self-Confidence

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

Self Quotes

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

No one was ever named HERO for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are.
It is our choices.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

When I Honor myself,
I am confident of my being,
and I am gentle with myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius

NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker

I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon

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