Build Momentum Through Consistency Quotes

“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”

“Nothing is as fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”

“The more things you do, the more you can do.”

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”

“All growth depends upon activity.”

“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”

“We are either moving forward or moving backward. There is no such thing as standing still.”

“Every moment of one's existence, one is growing into more or retreats into less.”

“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”

“Make it work, make it right, make it fast.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“What gets rewarded gets repeated.”

“You can't cut down a tree with a single swing of an axe.”

“Momentum is a magnifier. It takes everything and magnifies it to its maximum capacity.”

“You must generate life momentum and the way we do that is with small wins. Small wins beget big wins.”

“For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.”

“It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.”

“A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming.”

“A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn’t won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.”

“You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible, and no one can keep you from this.”

“Developing tolerance for imperfection is the key factor in turning chronic starters into consistent finishers.”

“Starting is fun, but the future belongs to finishers.”

“All you have to do is win more today than you did yesterday and repeat the whole thing tomorrow.”

“90 percent perfect and shared with the world always changes more lives than 100 percent perfect and stuck in your head.”

“Unfortunately, perfectionism dies slowly. It’s persistent and particularly dangerous because it masquerades as excellence.”

“Routines can be a rut.”

“When I meet smaller creators, my advice is just to make 100 videos and improve one thing each video.”

“The first million subscribers you get will take years, but the second will come in a few months.”

“Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”

“Don’t waste your time being motivated or inspired. Spend every second of your time moving forward.”

“You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don’t walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right”

“If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn’t matter if it’s an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.”

“You won’t get much done if you only grind on the days you feel good.”

“Most people need consistency more than they need intensity. Intensity makes a good story. Consistency makes progress.”

“The beginnings of all things are small.”

“Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill.”

“The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.”

“You get what you repeat.”

“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”

“Success is often found by practicing the fundamentals everyone knows they should be doing, but find too boring or basic to practice routinely.”

“The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.”

“Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.”

“It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.”

“What you do on your ordinary days determines what you can achieve on your extraordinary days.”

“It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.”

“The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed.”

“Discipline, in essence, is consistency of action.”

“The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.”

“Each turn builds upon previous work as you make a series of good decisions, supremely well executed, that compound one upon another. This is how you build greatness.”