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

“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

“It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“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!

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The path to greatness is paved with persistence, not perfection.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“Rivers carve their paths with the gentle persistence of time.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“I seek heavenly steadfastness in earthly monotony.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Looking at her grandson with great patience, Grammy replied, “When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, not much younger’n you, my Memaw tole me that biscuit makin’ was ser’ous business. For ever’ biscuit ya cut, yer buildin’ muscle and storin’ up grit.”
― Eve M. Harrell, Revealed Truth: A Journey From Fear to Faith

“Consistency is the heartbeat of mastery. With each relentless beat, it turns the ordinary into extraordinary, transforming fleeting sparks into an enduring flame.”
― Farshad Asl

“Remember, consistency is a critical component of success.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Nothing fails like success.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Embrace whatever life throws at you, even if it's difficult at first. Sometimes, it takes a few false starts to find your footing and get moving in the right direction. The important thing is to keep trying.”
― Kuhle Lali

“But since I do happen to have a bit of ability to write novels, and have had some good luck on my side, plus a stubborn
streak (or, to put it more nicely, a consistency) that's proved helpful, I've been able, over thirty-five years, to write novels
as a profession. To this day it continues to amaze me. It really does. What I've wanted to talk about in this book is that very
sense of amazement, about the strong desire (or will, you might say) to hold onto the purity of that feeling of amazement.
Perhaps the past thirty-five years of my life have been the ardent pursuit to maintain that sense of amazement. It certainly
feels that way.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation