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The drive to be (and look) consistent constitutes a potent driving force, often causing us to act in ways contrary to our own best interest.

…a high degree of consistency is normally associated with personal and intellectual strength. It is the heart of logic, rationality, stability, and honesty.

Without [consistency], our lives would be difficult, erratic, and disjointed.

When it occurs unthinkingly, consistency can be disastrous. Nonetheless, even blind consistency has its attractions.

Once we have made up our minds about an issue, stubborn consistency allows us an appealing luxury: we don’t have to think hard about the issue anymore.

Sealed within the fortress walls of rigid consistency, we can be impervious to the sieges of reason.

Whenever one takes a stand visible to others, there arises a drive to maintain that stand in order to look like a consistent person.

We need to be wary of the tendency to be automatically and unthinkingly consistent, for it lays us open to the maneuvers of those who want to exploit [it]… for profit.

…a preference for consistency increase[s] with the years and… once beyond the age of fifty, people display the strongest inclination of all to remain consistent with their earlier commitments.

…it is crucial to make your habits so easy that you’ll do them even when you don’t feel like it.