Consistency Quotes

Every day, you're only as good as your last show.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed.

You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared... Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant. There will be days when you don't feel on top of your game, or meetings in which you aren't at your best, but your commitment remains constant. No compromises.

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

It's time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day.

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.

Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won't be an end.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Sometimes I hear people talk about discipline of self and I think, if you don't have passion, I might discipline myself for a week or two but only passion will hold me steady.

I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different fromanother than from himself at different times.

Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That's the Law of Consistency. It doesn't matter how talented you are. It doesn't matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.