Samuel Johnson Quotes About Failure

• Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

  Samuel Johnson

  Failure, Failing, Ashamed

  'Irene' (1749) prologue

• Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Failure, Men, Misery

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 31 (1780)

• Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

  Samuel Johnson

  Failure, Past, Design

  Samuel Johnson (1892). “Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, Ayer Company Pub

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