Consistency quotes

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Each book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

The world remains ever the same.

I do my job like I breathe.

It’s just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.