Consistency Quotes

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“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. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
― Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays

“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.”
― Roy T. Bennett

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

“Belief arises from honesty, consistency, and care.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

“Between our craves and our regrets stands the live stage of the presence that must give meaning and consistency and feel-good vibes to our life. At the same time, it raises the power of positivity and reconciles the history of our past with the expectations of the future. ("Island of regret.- Island of remorse.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”
― E. James Rohn

“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
― Bernard Berenson

“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. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.”
― Holly Mosier

“One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.”
― Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards, The Daffodill Principle

“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

“A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.
For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of
set standards...!”
― Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!

“He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in character and capacity, had enabled him to dash through his tasks, always with fair credit and often with distinction, but in a fitful, dazzling way that had confirmed his reliance on those very qualities in himself which it had been most desirable to direct and train. They were good qualities, without which no high place can be meritoriously won, but like fire and water, though excellent servants, they were very bad masters. If they had been under Richard’s direction, they would have been his friends; but Richard being under their direction, they became his enemies.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“It is not perfection we seek, for perfection is impossible. It is instead consistency.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Subjectivity measures nothing consistently.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“If you try to be consistent, you tie yourself to a rock and you restrict your own movements! Don’t do this! Let all the paths are reachable without any obstacle! Free yourself from the consistency!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“My people!" he shouted in the stentorian voice. "I shall speak now of us! Who are we? We are an articulate people, yet a people of few words. We feel deeply, yet refrain from embarrassing displays of emotion. Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent. Our national coloration, though varied, is consistent. Everything about us is as it should be, for example, we can be excessive when excess is called for, and yet, even in our excess, we show good taste, although never is our taste so super-refined as to seem precious. Even the extent to which we are moderate is moderate, except when we have decided to be immoderately moderate, or even shockingly flamboyant, at which time our flamboyance is truly breathtaking in a really startling way, and when we decide to make mistakes, our mistakes are as big and grand and irrevocable as any nation's colossal errors, and when we decide to deny our mistakes, we sound just as if we are telling the truth, and when we decide to admit our errors, we do so in a way that is truly moving in its extreme frankness! Am I making sense? Am I saying this well?”
― George Saunders, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

“The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.”
― Peter Bodo, Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in The Harsh New World of Professional Tennis

“[Voltaire] was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.”
― Thomas Mallon, A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries

“Success is the result of consistent action, fueled by passion and guided by purpose. It's not about being the best, but about being better than you were yesterday. So strive for progress, not perfection, and trust the process, for the journey is just as important as the destination.”
― hani hakkam

“If we do acts of kindness and are attentive of others when possible, this will become a habit with time.
Eventually –
With little effort –
we will instinctively understand what others need.”
― Zhen-Ru

“The Push

A push can start the movement. But real growth starts when you push yourself.”
― Thanzil Salam

“Aiming for daily perfection leads to exhaustion and frustration. But aiming for daily progress builds not only momentum but also the underlying confidence to show up for yourself and who God has called you to be.”
― Heather Brown, The Sunday Reset: The Ultimate Guide to Reclaim Your Week, Restore Your Health, and Make Time for What Matters Most

“It is time to show the universe what you are capable of,
says my horoscope, increasingly insistent this month.
But what I am capable of is staring

at the salt accident on the coffee table & thinking,
What sad salt. I admire my horoscope
for its conviction. I envy its consistency. Every day. Every day,
there is a future to be aggressively vaguer about.”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

“When your why is weak, your discipline will always be fragile.”
― Heather Brown, The Sunday Reset: The Ultimate Guide to Reclaim Your Week, Restore Your Health, and Make Time for What Matters Most

“The women who experience the greatest fruit from the reset aren’t the ones who execute it flawlessly—they’re the ones who keep adjusting it to match the season they’re living in.”
― Heather Brown, The Sunday Reset: The Ultimate Guide to Reclaim Your Week, Restore Your Health, and Make Time for What Matters Most