6 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Motivation

Samuel Johnson quotes on motivation

16. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

57. That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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81. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

91. 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; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are vehement and clamorous, only that they may be sooner hired to be silent.

147. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

153. Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.