Quotes About Consistency

Slow and steady wins the race.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow, do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks, or every six months, whatever is appropriate.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

When you're a professional, you come back no matter what happened the day before.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't get the fourth without it.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you.

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray.

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

Keep your promises to yourself.