Samuel Johnson Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
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The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Great Sayings
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
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