Samuel Johnson Quotes About Change

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Positive, Attitude

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.41

• Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Retirement, Night

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.35

• Change is not made without inconvenience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Project Management, Projects

  'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) preface.

• Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Change, World

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona”, p.220

• The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Knowing, Causes

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.12

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