(1856 quotes found)
“You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.”
Maya Angelou
“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether”
Lord Byron
“Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind”
John Sloan
“In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.”
Tom Seaver
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“There must be consistency in direction.”
W. Edwards Deming
“You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.”
Joe Paterno
“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
“Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.”
Willa Sibert Cather
