Honore de Balzac Quotes

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

When we find ourselves in the same situation repeatedly as a result of our conditioned responses, we must stop and do a new thing. The situation may look different. The route we take there may be altogether different. The lesson we must learn does not change. Get honest! Pay attention! Change what you do to create a change for yourself!

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

True repentance always involves reform.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

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

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.