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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Self Esteem

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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

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.

Self Esteem, Mean, Law

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

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

Kindness, Self Esteem, Believe

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

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

Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem

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

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