Samuel Johnson Quotes About Quitting

• He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sunshine, Shade, Brightness

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.240

• He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, May

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.149

• The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today

  Samuel Johnson

  Encouragement, Real, Perfect Days

• He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Alexander Chalmers (1810). “The idler”, p.229

• If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Reading, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.65

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