Quotes About Consistency

When people do one mean thing they are very likely to do another

Meg, and altogether too much of a weathercock just now for anyone to depend on. Don't make plans, Jo

Once Washington had set his sights on independence, his vision was unblinking, and his consistency proved one of his most compelling qualities.

Few, if any, other founding fathers opposed slavery more consistently or toiled harder to eradicate it than Hamilton—a fact that belies the historical stereotype that he cared only for the rich and privileged.

But in spite of numerous scattered cases of rival refiners getting comparable rebates, no other firm received so many rebates so consistently over so many years or on such a colossal scale as Rockefeller's.

John D. Rockefeller was the Protestant work ethic in its purest form, leading a life so consistent with Weber's classic essay that it reads like his spiritual biography.

When he exhausted his list, he simply started over from the top and visited several firms two or three times.

He did not deviate from this routine by one jot, regardless of the weather.

That trains mostly stay on rails, that the streets are mostly peaceful, that the square continues green and quiet below my window is more than I have any right to expect, and it happens every day.

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

What you were is forever who you are.

My diaries have always been my friends. The written word is so much more constant than human beings.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

Our team was surprisingly consistent this year. We closed with a seven-seven record. We lost seven at home and seven on the road.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.