quotations about consistency
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
HORATIO SMITH
Tin Trumpet
Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The Way of All Flesh
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
BERNARD SHAW
attributed, Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy
I can't tell you what you mean to me
You're my constant, you're my consistency
People are changing, barely recognize this town
Gotta promise me that you'll always be around
MATT WERTZ
"Like the Last Time", Today & Tomorrow
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
Inconsistency is a shift of mask.... No one really knows who the inconsistent man or woman really is.
TOM MORRIS
The Stoic Art of Living: Inner Resilience and Outer Results
The consistency of our censored thoughts
Tread a static course
Ordinary people:your outlook is lethal
NORTHLANE
"Animate", Node
I am a walking contradiction
That's found consistency
AS I LAY DYING
"Parallels", The Powerless Rise
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he's stuck in a rut.
MARK TWAIN
"Consistency,", The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon; or, Many Things in Few Words
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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Essays
Consistency is the horror of the world.
BRENDA UELAND
If you Want to Write
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
BERNARD BERENSON
Notebook
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest and most universal causes of all our disquiet and unhappiness.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Sep. 5, 1711
Consistency:
It's the jewel worth wearing;
It's the anchor worth weighing;
It's the thread worth weaving;
It's a battle worth winning.
CHARLES SWINDOLL
Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life
Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It's like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week.
HOLLY MOSIER
Stress Less, Weigh Less
The consistent man is a logical man, his life is one-dimensional. He lives in arithmetic, he follows logic. If anything goes against logic he simply avoids seeing it; he pretends that it is not there, because it is so disturbing to his logic.
OSHO
The Book of Wisdom
The consistent man ... may be less prompt and rapid in his movements, but he ordinarily exhibits more discretion. And when he has once come to a conclusion as to what course is best to be pursued, he goes forward to the accomplishment of his object with perseverance and success. He may be somewhat cautious in forming friendships; but he is equally so in breaking them up and terminating them. He endeavours to perform what he considers to be his duty after a full examination of a subject, and is not discouraged, and angry, and turbulent, if he happens to meet with disappointments. He looks calmly on the changes of life, neither much elated by prosperity, nor depressed by adversity. He does not make his principles bend to his circumstances; but conscientiously and firmly maintains them under all changes of fortune. If he is poor in outward wealth, he is rich in inward consolation; if he is sometimes filled with sorrow, he is not harassed with the tenfold wretchedness of remorse; and if he is destitute and unhonoured, he is never contemptible. Such is the consistent man when guided by the sentiments of virtue.
THOMAS COGSWELL UPHAM
A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the Will
Find a path of consistency
Sink my teeth into it
UMPHREY'S MCGEE
"Home"
So you fake it till you make it
Consistency the yolk
If you live like someone's watching you
You'll be the egg that never broke
BLUE OCTOBER
"Time Changes Everything", Home