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

Source: Samuel Johnson, quoted by Thomas Stothard in Harrison’s British Classicks: Dr. Johnson’s Rambler. Lord Lyttleton’s page: 399.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Source: Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779–81), The Life of Pope. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. – Samuel Johnson 0

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Source: Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779–81), The Life of Pope.

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Source: Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779–81), The Life of Pope.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Source: Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779–81), The Life of Pope.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Source: Samuel Johnson: Rambler #18 (May 19, 1750). Complete Sentence: Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and that he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness, that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.