CONSISTENCY QUOTES

quotations about consistency

The inconsistent man projects a plan of operations to-day ; to-morrow he makes preparations to carry it into effect ; and the next day he abandons it. He proclaims his friendship for this or that individual; eulogizes their merits, without much discrimination, on every opportunity suitable or unsuitable; but suddenly he becomes suspicious, recalls his eulogiums, and ends in hatred. He adopts the principles of some literary, political, or religious sect; defends them with great zeal for a short time; and then rejects them with contempt. And it is impossible, from any assertions he may make or any course he may pursue at the present moment, to divine what doctrines he will maintain or what course he will take hereafter.

THOMAS COGSWELL UPHAM

A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the Will


The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

STELLA BENSON

I Pose

Tags: Stella Benson


Of course the society respects the consistent man, because the consistent man is predictable. You know what he is going to do tomorrow, you know how he is going to react. He is manageable, he can be easily manipulated. You know what buttons to push and how he will act. He is a machine; he is not truly a man. You can put him on and off and he will behave according to you; he is in your hands.

OSHO

The ABC of Enlightenment


It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

TONY ROBBINS

Awaken the Giant Within


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

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Do What You Will


Consistency is a virtue for trains.

STEPHEN VICINCZEY

Truth and Lies in Literature


It is the want of consistency which has caused more secret uneasiness, and more relative discord, than almost any other failing concocted with a man's character.

W. S. MARTIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

BUDD SCHULBERG

What Makes Sammy Run?


I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Essays


Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency, especially when it regards religion or party. In either of these cases, though a man perhaps does but his duty in changing his side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, Sep. 5, 1711


Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Slow and steady wins the race.

AESOP

"The Tortoise and the Hare", Aesop's Fables


No intelligent person ever considers a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

CICERO

Epigram ad Atticum


And it seems to be that consistency is not what lingers ahead
But a virtue of the dead

KATATONIA

"Undo You"


Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER

attributed, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow


Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

WALT WHITMAN

"Song of Myself", Leaves of Grass


The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

attributed, 1001 Motivational Quotes for Success


Success is neither magical nor mysterious. It is no more than the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

JIM ROHN

7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness


The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"The Crack-Up", Esquire, February 1936


Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

OSCAR WILDE

Aristotle at Afternoon Tea