Consistency Quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Related topics: Wisdom

I am committed to truth, not consistency.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

A widespread belief is more often likely
to be foolish than sensible.
- Bertrand Russell

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee

When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela

You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa

Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung

People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson

Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy

The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Forgive those who have injured you -
not because they deserve your forgiveness,
but because you can never be happy
until you release your anger and grant forgiveness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung

We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher

An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you feel worried and depressed,
consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat
until the happy feeling becomes genuine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead

Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey

May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing

As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.
Freedom is like that. It's like air.
When you have it, you don't notice it.
- Boris Yeltsin

Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until
we have been stuck, incapacitated,
or blown off course for awhile.
- David Whyte

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau

Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer

Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins

One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie