Samuel Johnson Quotes

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Life ain't about just 'Chillin' It.' I've learned that.

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.

All success is quite temporary if you don't work hard enough to maintain where you are. Talent can get you somewhere but character keeps you there. You have to build character along the way and know when and know how to take the victories from situations even though they might seem grim.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

Not a lot of people see that when you're growing up. You don't get to see that people really have to work hard to become as good as they are.

All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.