Quotes About Consistency

And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.

The single most important factor for cultivating your relationship with deities is to simply give energy in the form of offerings and prayers (words spoken during offerings; not religious). It is about consistency. The more you put in, the more you will get out of the relationship.

He used to say, 'Do, and expect nothing.' And since he did, his deeds combined to make a substantial reality. For such is the way of deeds: if a man does one thing today and another tomorrow, in the course of time they combine into a great deed.

I would rather have a mule I can depend upon than a race horse that I can't depend upon.

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won.

Here's the thing about values: You have to use words to identify them, but they won't create true value for you unless they turn into consistent behaviors.

Once is interesting. Twice is happenstance. Three times, it's a game. Patterns are things that happen that you really couldn't prove in court, but damn it, you know they happen!

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live it in a consistent way.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: Whatever anyone does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

Wherever you go, there you are—the same person, with the same patterns of thought.

37. If you've seen the present, then you've seen everything -- as it's been since the beginning, as it will be forever. The same substance, the same form. All of it.

Remember that as it is a shame to be surprised if the fig-tree produces figs, so it is to be surprised if the world produces such and such things of which it is productive

If once round and solid, there is no fear that ever it will change.

always, whether in the sharpest pains, or after the loss of a child, or in long diseases, to be still the same man;

He was not easily moved and tossed up and down, but loved to be constant

Be a boxer, not a gladiator, in the way you act on your principles. The gladiator takes up his sword only to put it down again, but the boxer is never without his fist and only has to clinch it.

Not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always, whether in the sharpest pains, or after the loss of child, or in long diseases, to be still the same man

Change the ideas and keep the forms the same, and you will have changed little.

It is the strict adherence to daily routine that tends towards the maintenance of good morale and the preservation of sanity," he says out loud.

Yo sólo juego a ser inconstante —dije por fin—. Por dentro soy una roca. Siempre leal, siempre firme. Pero un poco de juego es la sal de la vida y mantiene a raya a mis enemigos.

Technology changes, but people stay the same.