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Quotes about Consistency
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“The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
“A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.”
“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
“Constants aren't.”
“Consistency is the foundation of virtue.”
“Without consistency there is no moral strength.”
“Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.”
“Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”
“Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.”
“Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.”
“Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.”
“No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.”
“You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.”
“My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.”
“Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.”
“What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.”