#Consistency Quotes

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

“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.”

“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”

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

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

“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.”

“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.”

“I'd prefer to be right than consistent.”

“People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.”

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

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

“Motivation is like bathing. You've got to do it every single day.”

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

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

“Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.”

“It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.”

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

“We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.”

“The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.”

“Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.”

“Does the business have a consistent operating history?”

“You become what you do most of the time.”

“Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.”

“Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.”

“You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”

“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.”

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

“Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.”

“Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life”

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

“Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”