Spencer Johnson Quotes

“Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.”

“Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.”

“I have more fun, and enjoy more finan­cial suc­cess, when I stop try­ing to get what I want and start help­ing other peo­ple get what they want.”

“I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.”

“I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.”

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”

“Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.”

“Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.”

“Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.”

“You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.”

“Between peaks there are always valleys. How you manage your valley determines how soon you reach your next peak.”

“It is natural for everyone everywhere to have peaks and valleys at work and in life.”

“The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.”

“A change imposed is a change opposed.”

“Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheeseless situation.”

“Better late than never.”

“He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was”

“He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action.

But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.”

“I guess the question is, What do we need to let go of and what do we need to move on to?”

“I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.”

“IF you don't change, you can become extinct!”

“It all depends on what you choose to believe.”

“It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation.”

“Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves.”

“Life moves on and so should we.”

“Movement in new direction helps find new cheese.”

“Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come.”

“See what you're doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.”

“Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.”

“Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.”