Quote #94
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observatio…
- New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
- A man sometimes starts up a patriot, only by disseminating discontent, and propagating reports of secret influence, of dangerous counsels, …
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the …
- The greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail, and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the publick;…
- He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
- Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible.…
- The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.