Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Time
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Courage
category

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. – Joseph Stalin

Category:
Courage

Unjust. How many times Ive used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I dont have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. – Lillian Hellman

Category:
Courage

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Category:
Courage

Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. – Howard Cosell

Category:
Courage

Random Quotes

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. – Alvin Toffler

Category:
Knowledge

Thomas Jefferson once said, We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. – Ronald Reagan

Category:
Age

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. Its limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design. – Larry Wall

Category:
design

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he cant carry a movie. Theyll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they wont put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie. – George A. Romero

Category:
Wisdom