Top 90 Spencer Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Better late than never.”

— Spencer Johnson

2. “Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.”

— Spencer Johnson

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

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

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5. “If you do not change, you can become extinct !”

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6. “When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.”

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7. “Life moves on and so should we.”

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

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

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10. “What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.”

— Spencer Johnson

11. “When you stop being afraid you feel good.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “A change imposed is a change opposed.”

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14. “The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.”

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

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16. “It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.”

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

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18. “The biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself.”

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19. “Movement in new direction helps find new cheese.”

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20. “Be in The Present; Learn from The Past; and Help Create The Future.”

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

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22. “The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.”

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

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

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25. “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.”

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26. “Then when I heard the story of Who Moved My Cheese?, I realized my job was to paint a picture of ‘New Cheese’ that we would all want to pursue, so we could enjoy changing and succeeding, whether it was at work or in life.”

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

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28. “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.”

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

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30. “Even In The Most Difficult Situations, When You Focus On What Is Right In The Present Moment, It Makes You Happier, Today. And It Gives You The Needed Energy And Confidence To Deal With What Is Wrong.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “Repeating the same behavior will just get you the same results. “As.”

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33. “You Cannot Change The Past, But You Can Learn From It. When The Same Situation Arises, You Can Do Things Differently And Become Happier And More Effective and Successful Today.”

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34. “Some people never change and they pay a price for it.”

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35. “Being In The Present Means Tuning Out Distractions And Paying Attention To What Is Important, Now. You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.”

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36. “The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.”

— Spencer Johnson

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

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38. “Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese.”

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

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40. “You did not need to overcomplicate matters or confuse yourself with fearful beliefs.”

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41. “He knew that when you change what you believe, you change what you do.”

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

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43. “Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .”

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44. “Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese. The more important your cheese is to you the more you want to hold on to it.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “The fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly.”

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47. “Each of us has our own idea of what Cheese is, and we pursue it because we believe it makes us happy. If we get it, we often become attached to it. And if we lose it, or it’s taken away, it can be traumatic. The.”

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48. “He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him. Then.”

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49. “It Is Hard To Let Go Of The Past If You Have Not Learned From The Past. As Soon As You Learn And Let Go, You Improve The Present Today.”

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50. “The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now!”

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