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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficult

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

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

Category:
good
Author
Samuel Johnson
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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Cowardice/Weakness
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Friendship
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Success
category

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Success

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success youve achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too. – Lynn Johnston

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Success

There is no scientific answer for success. You cant define it. Youve simply got to live it and do it. – Anita Roddick

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Success

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldnt repeat a success. Very often youre going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then youre trapped. – Jack Nicholson

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Success

Random Quotes

Youre only as young as the last time you changed your mind. – Timothy Leary

Category:
Change

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. – W. Edwards Deming

Category:
Fear

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Kindness

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Category:
movies