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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

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about curiosity, knowledge

No man was ever great by imitation.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about self-control

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about danger

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about joy, equality, pleasure, happiness, human imperfections

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about prudence

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, art, magic, nothing, things, man

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

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.

Quote by Don Johnson about day, being

I have such a great time with my grandchildren.

Quote by Don Johnson about time

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about parents, actors, contentment

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about beauty, hate, contentment

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about genius

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about emotions, writers, pleasure, contentment

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about books, common sense, sense, man

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Quote by Juvenal about children, respect, mind, contentment

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Quote by Franz Kafka about contentment

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

Quote by Albert Camus about judgment, secret, day, contentment