Procopius of Caesarea Quotes

Habits change into character.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less

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

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.

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

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

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

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

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

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

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

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.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

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