Quotes About Consistency

She didn't want him to have good qualities. Horrible people should be horrible all the time.

Of course I'm all right, professor. I had to be. A is A.- John Galt

Times change, and people change with the times—the wise ones do. Wisdom lies in knowing when to remember and when to forget. Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.

We are all trained by today's colleges never to take a firm stand on any subject: to be pragmatists, ready to compromise with anyone on anything. Philosophy and morality, however, do not work by compromise. Just as a healthy body cannot compromise with poison, so too a good man cannot compromise with evil ideas. In such a set up, an evil philosophy, like poison, always wins. The good can win only by being consistent. If it is not, then the evil is given the means to win every time.

Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.

Integrity does not consist of loyalty to ones subjective whims, but of loyalty to rational principles

It means that he does not live his life short-range and does not drift like a bum pushed by the spur of the moment. It means that he does not regard any moment as cut off from the context of the rest of his life, and that he allows no conflicts or contradictions between his short-range and long-range interests. He does not become his own destroyer by pursuing a desire today which wipes out all his values tomorrow.

A good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

There are no contradictions. When you think you found one. Check your premises.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." ? Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

It is amazing how everything can fall into a routine

If I say I will do something, I must do it. Otherwise, how will people know that my word is true?

But I missed my wife. I missed my kids. I missed my bed, a consistent shower, sitting at a proper table for a proper meal. I missed not having to say the exact same thing the exact same way five or six or seven times a day.

Integrity isn't something you have in some parts of your life and not in others. You either have it, or you don't.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." — Mahatma Gandhi

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." — Attributed to Aristotle

Greatness is very boring.

Our lesson for today, boys and girls, is the more things change, the more things change. Whoever said the more things change the more things stay the same was obviously suffering severe mental retardation.

A commit gives hope. Following through that commitment builds trust

When he makes you a promise, he is assuring you that however the world changes, his word will not change. Thus, he is creating the future inside the present. Even more: he is creating the present inside the present. He is establishing on stationary point amid the infinite flux of events.

The man who has come to this is the man who was here from the beginning. He does what he always did. Nothing has changed.

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did it on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?