Quotes About Consistency

The secret to a good life, he once told me, 'is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.' - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been

The secret to a good life, he told me once, is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.

People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.

People did not change their basic, core personalities.

what she really wanted from him, needed from him, was to know that she could always pick up the phone and he would be there. That was all Lena had ever wanted from Hank. That was actually the one thing he had always given her.

Angie always came back.

People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same. Their personal demeanors. Their world outlook and political beliefs. One need only go to a high school reunion to verify the theory.

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

No honest man will argue on every side

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

A good man's life is all of a piece.

I do yoga, like, 20 minutes a day, but the routine that I practice I initially watched on YouTube, like, two years ago. I'm still doing that same thing. YouTube University, man. It's the best.

The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.