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Quotes By Samuel Johnson

Antelope Canyon

Chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Samuel Johnson

Habits

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Glacier National Park

Whatever you have, spend less.

Samuel Johnson

Money

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Lake Tahoe

It is better to live rich, than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

Life, Money

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Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Samuel Johnson

Life, Time

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Glacier National Park

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

Goals, Gratitude

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness

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Arches National Park

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

Samuel Johnson

Communication, Happiness

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Bandon, Face Rock, Oregon

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Samuel Johnson

Thinking

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Grand Staircase-Escalante

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Samuel Johnson

Genius

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Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

Samuel Johnson

Age, Confidence

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Montana

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Samuel Johnson

Discipline

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Lake Tahoe

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Samuel Johnson

Character

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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Samuel Johnson

Imagination, Travel

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Arches National Park

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Samuel Johnson

Intelligence, Knowledge

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For we that live please must please to live.

Samuel Johnson

Acceptance

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Lake Tahoe

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.

Samuel Johnson

Honesty, Self, Truth

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Lake Tahoe

Clear your mind of can’t.

Samuel Johnson

Attitude, Determination, Optimism, Thinking

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Arches National Park

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

Accountability, Confidence, Courage, Success

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Zion National Park

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone.

Samuel Johnson

Alone, Friendship

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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

Samuel Johnson

Ambition, Desire, Happiness

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Hawaii, Maui

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find it.

Samuel Johnson

Competition, Customer Service, Knowledge

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Lake Tahoe

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson

Example

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Hope

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Hawaii, Maui

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Samuel Johnson

Hope

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Black Sand Beach, Hana, Hawaii, Maui

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Risk

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Capital Reef National Park

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

Samuel Johnson

Appreciation, compliment

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He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Awareness, Change, Knowledge, Self, Thinking

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Lake Tahoe

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

Integrity, Knowledge

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