Samuel Johnson Quotes About Self Esteem

• 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

• No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Self Esteem, Believe

  Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Rambler”, p.249

• Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

  Samuel Johnson

  Self Esteem, Mean, Law

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.459

• That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.132

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