Quotes of Samuel Johnson

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Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.

- Samuel Johnson

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“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ”

- Laura Lynch

“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ”

- Anne Frank

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. ”

- e.e. cummings

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ All my problems bow before my stubbornness. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult