Samuel Johnson Quotes About Confidence

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Confidence, Honesty

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.113

• Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

  Samuel Johnson

  Confidence, Insightful

• Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Confidence

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works”, p.500

• Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

  Samuel Johnson

  Confidence, Growth, Plant

• In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Confidence, Comfort, Bottles

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.66

• It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

  Samuel Johnson

  Confidence, Genius, Pace

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.32

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