He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or pow... -Samuel Johnson

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

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Samuel Johnson Quotes to Explore

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel....
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may ...
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are....
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance....
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining...
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes ...
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope....
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence....
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 spe...
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good....

Courage Quotes to Explore

Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications ...
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage....
Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and opp...
I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India....
If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record c...
I used to be so intimidated by spin classes. I'd always go by and see people on their bikes looking so intense. But one day my sister and I worked up ...
It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, qu...
I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to...
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to con...
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business....