quotations about consistency
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
Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
The consistent man ... may be less prompt and rapid in his movements, but he ordinarily exhibits more discretion. And when he has once come to a conclusion as to what course is best to be pursued, he goes forward to the accomplishment of his object with perseverance and success. He may be somewhat cautious in forming friendships; but he is equally so in breaking them up and terminating them. He endeavours to perform what he considers to be his duty after a full examination of a subject, and is not discouraged, and angry, and turbulent, if he happens to meet with disappointments. He looks calmly on the changes of life, neither much elated by prosperity, nor depressed by adversity. He does not make his principles bend to his circumstances; but conscientiously and firmly maintains them under all changes of fortune. If he is poor in outward wealth, he is rich in inward consolation; if he is sometimes filled with sorrow, he is not harassed with the tenfold wretchedness of remorse; and if he is destitute and unhonoured, he is never contemptible. Such is the consistent man when guided by the sentiments of virtue.
THOMAS COGSWELL UPHAM
A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the Will
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency, and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency, and a vice.
MARK TWAIN
"Consistency,", The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
Keeping possibilities alive requires a consistency of thought and focus.
STEVEN REDHEAD
Life Is a Cocktail
The man who spends one-half of the day in studying what is just, and the other half in practicing what is so, shows a knowledge of consistency.
J. A. JAMES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Well the stars seem to shine even
When the clouds are there,
And it's night alright,
And I envy their consistency
LISA MITCHELL
"Slow", Said One to the Other
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failure.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Time is the promise
delivered with stunning consistency
QUEENSRYCHE
"The Whisper"
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
TOM ROBBINS
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
The consistent man, then, is not to be found, unless he be the man who cherishes the love, and practises the observance, of truth.
WILLIAM ELLIS
Outlines of History and Formation of the Understanding
Consistency, thou art a jewel.
ANONYMOUS
A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does.
PAWAN MISHRA
Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy