He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in character and capacity, had enabled him to dash through his tasks, always with fair credit and often with distinction, but in a fitful, dazzling way that had confirmed his reliance on those very qualities in himself which it had been most desirable to direct and train. They were good qualities, without which no high place can be meritoriously won, but like fire and water, though excellent servants, they were very bad masters. If they had been under Richard's direction, they would have been his friends; but Richard being under their direction, they became his enemies.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!

In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts

The desire for excellence becomes a reality when an individual sets a standard, reach it and surpass it consistently.

When you decide to be better than you were yesterday and maintain this attitude, you are going to the peak.

Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident.

U will have success where you diligently labor

Consistency is the belt that fastens excellence in position. If you don't do it repeatedly, you'll not excel in it.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds ...

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

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.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteach-able brat, well birched and none the wiser.

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

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