16 Uplifting Samuel Johnson Quotes On How To Gain Confidence In Life

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Confidence is the key to success. It is what you need to break barriers in your life. It is what you need to take great action. If you don’t believe in yourself, don’t give up. It takes time to build self-confidence. According to E.E. Cummings, “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or experience that reveals the human spirit.” And if you want to do it, try to do something that really scares you.

Here are 16 uplifting quotes that will help build your own self-confidence:

“The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”- Samuel Johnson

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”- Samuel Johnson

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”- Samuel Johnson

“Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”-

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“A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”- Samuel Johnson

“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.“- Samuel Johnson

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”- Samuel Johnson

“Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.”- Samuel Johnson

“A man of genius has been seldom ruined by himself.”- Samuel Johnson

“Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.”- Samuel Johnson

“Hope is itself a species of happiness…”- Samuel Johnson

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”- Samuel Johnson

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”- Samuel Johnson

“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”- Samuel Johnson

“Nothing… will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”- Samuel Johnson

“Hope is necessary in every condition.“- Samuel Johnson

5 Easy Ways To Know Yourself Today

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To know who you are, you must face yourself. You must face your fears. You must face your failures. You need to know yourself before you can know others.

Here are 5 easy ways to know yourself today:

You must pay attention to your life.

Pay attention to how you live your life. If you are doing something that is against your values, stay away from it. Socrates said, “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

Accept what you don’t know.

It is okay to admit what you don’t know. “It is better to be a fool for a moment than to be a fool forever.” According to Socrates, “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”

Learn how to think for yourself.

To know yourself, you must learn to think for yourself. It helps you to connect with yourself. As Socrates once said, “To find yourself, think for yourself.”

Believe in yourself.

If you want to get anything done in your life, you must believe that you can do it. According to William Faulkner, “Others have done it before me. I can, too.”

Live your life.

Live your life to the fullest. You have only one life to live, why not enjoy it? Socrates said many years ago that, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” And Henry James said, “Live all you can- it’s a mistake not to.”

Live your life. Do not try to be who you are not. Be honest with yourself and others. If you can do that, you can deal with yourself.