Confidence Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

— Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

— Samuel Johnson

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

— Samuel Johnson

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

— Samuel Johnson

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

— Samuel Johnson

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am…

— Samuel Johnson

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

— Samuel Johnson

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

— Samuel Johnson

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and…

— Samuel Johnson

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of…

— Samuel Johnson

Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to…

— Samuel Johnson

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in…

— Samuel Johnson

Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.…

— Samuel Johnson

Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with…

— Samuel Johnson

To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on…

— Samuel Johnson

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is…

— Samuel Johnson

Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,…

— Samuel Johnson

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is…

— Samuel Johnson

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the…

— Samuel Johnson

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit…

— Samuel Johnson