Samuel Johnson Quotes

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

At the end of the day, everything you chase will run.

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Nothing is achieved without toil.

I row after health like a waterman.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.