Consistency Sayings and Quotes

Consistency is one of the core strategies for achieving success. You need to be in it for the long haul, not quick results. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful quotes about consistency.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Aldous Huxley
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. George Bernard Shaw
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. John Sloan
Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning. Charles Swindoll
My name is CONSISTENCY, I am related to SUCCESS. We should hang out more often than...every once in a while. Kim Garst
Let there be consistency in whatever you do and whatever you say. If what you think and say is mismatching with what you do, you can't really be trusted. Israelmore Ayivor
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. Malcolm Gladwell
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other. Larry Wall
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
Consistency is what matters the most in triggering something important to your life. Abdul Rauf
Consistency is the foundation of virtue. Francis Bacon
Without consistency there is no moral strength. John Owen
Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish. William Allen White
Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things! Mehmet Murat ildan
True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances. John C. Calhoun
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently. Anthony Robbins
Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular attendance, attention and action. Israelmore Ayivo
Consistency is the key! If you can't be consistent, then you can't be anything. Tony Gaskins
Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences. Kim John Payne
The secret of success is consistency of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. Anthony Robbins
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. Joe Paterno
Consistency is the horror of the world. Brenda Ueland
Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar. Evan Esar
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule. Molire
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. Marcus V. Pollio
Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic. Harsha Bhogle
Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations. Tariq Ramadan
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at time. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and lows. Drew Barrymore
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom and nature. Vitruvius
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity. Bruce Lee
People like consistency. Whether it’s a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for. Millard Drexler
Consistency of performance is essential. You don’t have to be exceptional every week but as a minimum you need to be at a level that even on a bad day you get points on the board. Sean Dyche
Consistency is a virtue for trains. Stephen Vizinczey
An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius. Chris Matakas
Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things! Mehmet Murat ildan
By being consistent with your efforts, you will find that things will start to change in what will appear to be subtle ways because we are less likely to take notice of things when they no longer challenge us. Jenny Stanley-Matthews
It’s very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that’s hard. Michelle Phan
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Colin Powell
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. Norman Vincent Peale
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves. Havelock Ellis
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consistency is only a kind of chastity of the head. Donald Barr
Intellectual consistency is far from being the first want of our nature, and is seldom a primary want in minds of great persuasive, as distinguished from convincing power. Michael Strahan
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who honestly mean to be true contradict themselves more rarely than those who try to be consistent. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature, and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency. Michael Faraday
It is for man the seasons and all their fruits exist. The winter was made to concentrate and harden and mature the kernel of his brain, to give tone and firmness and consistency to his thought. Then is the great harvest of the year, the harvest of thought. Henry David Thoreau
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failure. Oscar Wilde
Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again. Hank Aaron
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
Consistency paired with self-discipline is crucial to achieving your goals and being successful. Brian Tracy
Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. Dwayne the Rock Johnson
Where is the problem? We're entertained. / My problem's the consistency with every concept made / Don't just tell me a story / What does it convey? Rody Walker; Tim Millar; Luke Hoskin; Mike Ieradi; Cam McLellan
Cause and effect / You need consistency / How can you finish the tale? / Lives which have played a part / Are summarized from the very start / And episodes left out to make it all go our way. Christopher Geddes; Isobel Campbell; et al.
Should a patron require you to paint a marine, / Would you work in some trees with their barks on? / When his strict orders are for a Japanese jar, / Would you give him a pitcher like Clarkson? / Now, this is my moral: Compose what you may, / And Fame will be ever far distant / Unless you combine with a simple design / A treatment in toto consistent. Eugene Field
Sometimes, to do what's right, we have to be steady and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams. Peter Parker
Not random. Real. Coherent. Consistent. Only reality is consistent. Every reality is consistent. Everything that's true is beautiful. Let's suppose I say six numbers to you now. It's just stupid. Pointless. But if the six numbers are the winning lottery numbers, then they mean something. They have consistency, value, almost beauty. Kurt Barnert