Quotes About Consistency

Trust is a product of test over time.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

The good thing about 'SNL' is that it's the same people every week that you're working with, and we've all become so close and tight because we've worked together so long and so closely together.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

But then deep down, perhaps she had always been those things. People did not really change, did they?

If your opinions and commitments appear to change from year to year or decade to decade, what are the more abstract underlying convictions that have held steady, that might never have become visible without the surface variation?

Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.

The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us.

In the shapeliness of a life, habit plays its sovereign role.

The different and the novel are sweet, but regularity and repetition are also teachers.

to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Chapter 5: What Our Bodies Are Really Saying Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words. If you're going to talk the talk, you better walk the walk. Do you see a pattern here?

You can say one thing and do something completely different. People can talk all they want but if their actions are not congruent with their words, then their social value will crash into the ground and often they will not get a second chance because they will be perceived as a liar. That

Most species do not change their habits during their few million years on earth or alter their lifestyle much in different parts of their range.

Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

Just as in logic a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, in moral reasoning identical creatures cannot be worthy of moral consideration and unworthy of moral consideration; this dog or dolphin or elephant morally significant and those others are not.

You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice.

Even if you knew your routine like the back of your hand, a checklist was still important.

Every single day for the past three weeks, she