Samuel Johnson Quotes

For me, human beings have a very difficult time changing. It's one of the hardest things to do.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult.

I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

If you find yourself annoyed at his lazy tendencies early on, be wary - because that's one trait of his that won't magically change when he gets a better job or finally joins that gym.

Twenty-eight days is what is takes to break a habit and to implement a new set of habits.

All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'

Change happens at the level of the individual

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.