Samuel Johnson Quotes About Patience

• The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Generations, Genius

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.237

• For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Reign, Ill

  Tobias George Smollett, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith (1810). “The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith”

• In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Evil, Might

  "The Rambler".

• To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Be Patient, Vain

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.32

• Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Struggle, May

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “Works”, p.184

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