Self-Consistency Quotes

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

How I am in the booth, how I am when I meet you, that's how I am in general.

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Be what you would seem to be.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

One thing I'm not going to do is change up anything. Like, I'm always gonna be me.

Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement between ideals, aspirations and deeds is key to a life of peace, happiness and success.

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive.... It's difficult to say what makes a life a real life.... You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Some people, they feel like they have to change and try to go out and do this or do things for the cameras. I'm myself at all times, whether I'm at a grocery store or I'm speaking to a school. I want to be as levelheaded and down to earth as possible, because that's who I am.

And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years. When I wake up in the morning, for those first few moments before I remember where I am or when I am, I still feel that same way I did when I woke up at the age of five.

I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.'

I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.