Logo
Quote by Samuel Johnson
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. F

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Exercise
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Gambling (Gaming)
Author
Samuel Johnson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
great
category

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. – Calvin Coolidge

Category:
great

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. – Ansel Adams

Category:
great

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. – Harry S. Truman

Category:
great

A man is great by deeds, not by birth. – Chanakya

Category:
great

Random Quotes

Im afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though Im glad I am not any of these. – Tom Glazer

Category:
legal

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much. – Bruce Campbell

Category:
Travel

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. – George Patton

Category:
Action

October is a hallelujah! reverberating in my body year-round…. – John Nichols (b.1940), The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn

Category:
October