Non Trading Related Quotable Quotes:
A Special Selection

"Non Trading Related Quotable Quotes"

On Consistency & its Nature

Pros

"Consistency is the foundation of virtue." 

Francis Bacon

"Without consistency there is no moral strength."

Robert Owen

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Dennis Conner

Cons

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

  Oscar Wilde

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Bernard Berenson

As It Is

"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

"No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Non Trading Related Quotable Quotes Main Page - On Commitment and Effectiveness / Learning, Education and Experience

Part 2 - On Success & Achieving Success / Aiming and Visualizing Success

Part 3 - On Consistency & its Nature

Part 4 - On Psychology & Mindset / Taking Action & Talking Less

Part 5 - On Being Who You Are & Making Progress / Persistence / The Media

Part 6 - On Knowing a Person / Good Beginning / Truth / Simplicity

Part 7 - On Greatness / Fear / Perfection, General Topics I

Part 8 - General Topics II 
 

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