You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

—Samuel Johnson

About Samuel Johnson

Portrait of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (18 September [O.S. 7 September] 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer (creator of dictionaries). The work for which he is best known...

More quotations from Samuel Johnson

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

—Samuel Johnson

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

—Samuel Johnson

Words are but the signs of ideas.

—Samuel Johnson

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

—Samuel Johnson

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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

—Samuel Johnson

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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

—Ruben Studdard

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

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Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

—Philip Adams

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

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