"The first step to greatness is to be…" — Samuel Johnson
"The first step to greatness is to be honest."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
— Halle Berry
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
— Nathaniel Branden
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
— Richard Cecil
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I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to…
— Amy Chua
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step…
— W. Clement Stone
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If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the…
— Nelson DeMille
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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If you ask, what is the first step in the way of truth? I answer humility," saith St. Austin. "If…
— Antony C. Sutton
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Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.
— Mickey Hart
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You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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