"Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves……" — Samuel Johnson
"Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence."
—
Samuel Johnson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
-
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
-
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
-
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
-
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
-
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
-
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
-
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
-
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
-
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
-
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
-
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
See all 1,266 quotes by Samuel Johnson »
More Eminence Quotes
This quote is filed under Eminence Quotes,
one of 57 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
-
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
— Jean de la Bruyere
-
There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go…
— Raymond E. Feist
-
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the…
— Joseph Addison
-
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
— Nicolas Chamfort
-
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
— Samuel Johnson
-
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can…
— James Jeans
-
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
-
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence,…
— Charles Darwin
-
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one…
— David George Hogarth
-
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation…
— John Quincy Adams
-
Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all…
— Bruce R. McConkie
See all 57 Eminence Quotes »