Samuel Johnson Confidence Quotations

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.

To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom