Quotes About Consistency

The value of routine

Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time.

If you want to attain some heights in your life, you have to walk every minute.

The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon.

Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.

There are no miracles on Mondays.

I asked myself, what is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?

A man is what he does every day," said Emerson.

Characters in a novel or a play who act all the way through exactly as one expects them to... This consistency of theirs, which is held up to our admiration, is on the contrary the very thing which makes us recognise that they are artificially composed.

The difficulty in life is to take the same thing seriously for long at a time.

Le difficile dans la vie, c'est de prendre au sérieux longtemps de suite la même chose.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Trainers tended to perform with the same degree of effectiveness at various Saratoga meetings

There's only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

places. A man who seeks to pray earnestly in the church or in the closet, spends the greater part of the week or the day in a spirit entirely at variance with that in which he prayed. His worship was the work of a fixed place or hour, not of his whole

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but never made progress

They hadn't quite considered that by trusting one part of your life, you could undermine all the others. By siding with an early version of yourself, preemptively, you would doubt all future selves that conflicted with it.

The Baby-sitters Club was (almost) back to normal.

I could always count on him letting me down.

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 …