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.

Next quotes

• Samuel Johnson:

  Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

• Samuel Johnson:

  There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between t

• Samuel Johnson:

  Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying

• Samuel Johnson:

  Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by

• Samuel Johnson:

  Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness;

• Samuel Johnson:

  I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

• Samuel Johnson:

  I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man'

• Samuel Johnson:

  No man was ever great by imitation.

• Samuel Johnson:

  Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped witho

• Samuel Johnson:

  There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things