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Confidence Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
- Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which…
- In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
- Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
- Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him…
- There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I…
- Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I…
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