Consistency Quotes

There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

You become what you do most of the time.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.

You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Success is not a destination thing, it’s a daily thing.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

When you start taking consistent action, you will see results.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

The best that a parent can be... A demonstrator... A consistent, constant demonstrator of being in your own Vortex.