Quotes about consistency

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

— Francis Bacon

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

— Bernard Berenson

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

— Charlotte Bronte

No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.

— Marcus T. Cicero

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

— Dennis Conner

A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

— Horace

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

— Aldous Huxley

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

— Aldous Huxley

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

— Joseph Joubert

Without consistency there is no moral strength.

— Owen

Constants aren't.

— John Peers

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

— Horatio Smith

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.

— Mark Twain

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

— Stephen Vizinczey

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

— Oscar Wilde