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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about courage, haven, chance, use, contentment

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about impossible, wish, contentment

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about perseverance, determination, moral, despair, impossible, things, contentment

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about night, home, death, contentment

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty, liberty, enemies, happiness, human imperfections, contentment

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about sadness, contentment

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about politics, contentment

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about good, good luck, contentment, money

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, life, contentment

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about silence, word, contentment

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nation, contentment, people

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Quote by Samuel Beckett about companies, miracle, contentment

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

Quote by Magic Johnson about contentment

I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

Quote by Magic Johnson about medicine, day, time, contentment

I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

Quote by Magic Johnson about numbers, contentment, day, people

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and...

Quote by Magic Johnson about attitude, contentment, work

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

Quote by Magic Johnson about man, contentment, people

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

Quote by Magic Johnson about research, competition, idea, need, people, contentment

Young people want you to be real with them.

Quote by Magic Johnson about real estate, people, contentment