Quotes About Consistency

You already know how to do everything it would take to make you an outrageous success. All you have to do is keep doing the things that have gotten you this far.

little steps, compounded, do make a difference.

successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do—even when it doesn't look like it makes any difference.

That's the choice you face every day, every hour: A simple, positive action, repeated over time. A simple error in judgment, repeated over time. So easy to do. So easy not to do.

If you will commit to showing up consistently, every day, no matter what, then you have already won well more than half the battle.

The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them.

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they're also just as easy not to do.

successful people do: simple things that are easy to do.

Simple daily disciplines—little productive actions, repeated consistently over time—add up to the difference between failure and success.

You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.

So easy to do. So easy not to do.

Serving as your own boss, and doing so successfully, consistently, day in and day out, takes an uncommon degree of slight edge integrity, and frankly many business owners just don't have it.

All you have to do is keep doing the things that got you this far. Which is exactly what 99.9 percent of people don't do.

The answer is as simple as it is sad: somewhere along the way, you lost faith. You became too grown-up to take baby steps, too sure you would never succeed to let yourself fail a few times first. You gave up on the universal truth that simple little disciplines, done again and again over time, would move the biggest mountains. You forgot what you used to know about the slight edge.

It's just a matter of mastering the mundane—of repeating simple little disciplines that, done consistently over time, will add up to the very biggest accomplishments.

No success is immediate, no collapse is sudden. They are both the result of the slight edge accruing momentum over time.

Write something every day,' she said, 'even if it's only a line, it will protect you.

I don't pray when I'm in the mood anymore then I wash dishes when I'm in the mood. Pray 'til you feel like praying.

Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.

What if you determined to fin one thing every day that you -... I know. Count your blessings. Remind yourself every night of every good thing that happened to you that day. No. I'm not talking about things that happen to you. I'm talking about purposefully doing one thing that brings you happiness every single day, in a very conscious way. .......think of it more fluidly-as a philosophy that you exercise daily. And days turn into years. And then years turn into a lifetime.

Everybody always forgets that you die the way you live. She will keep on being herself until the end.

I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves.

Work with all your heart, because—I promise—if you show up for your work day after day after day after day, you