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Consequences

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.--Virgil
Because right is right, to follow right were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Consequences are unpitying.--George Eliot (Adam Bede)
Don't be misled: no one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest.--Galatians 6: 7 (The Message)
Doubt not to reap, if thou can't bear to plough.--Judith Maden
Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.--Ben Aaronvitch
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.--Dwight David Eisenhower (April 16, 1953)
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.--Goethe (in Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann)
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.--Sherwood Eddy
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.--James Allen
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.--T.S. Eliot
He that does good to another does good also to himself.--Seneca
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.--Norman Cousins
In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.--Blaise Pascal (Pensées)
In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.--Martin Niemoeller
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.--Josiah Stamp
Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions.--Gary Ryan Blair
The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.--Grace Speare
No doing without some ruing.--Sigrid Undset (Kristin Lavensdatter: The Bridal Wreath)
Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?--Isabelle Eberhardt (The Passionate Nomad)
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.--Edward Albee
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.--Japanese proverb
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Fate" The Conduct of Life)
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.--Robert Louis Stevenson
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Journals)
Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.--Margaret Atwood ("The Age of Lead" Wilderness Trips)
There is no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.--E. B. White (Quo Vadimus?)
Through the law of cause and effect we choose our destiny. Moreover, we are our own prophets for we constantly project our future state by the seeds we plant in the present.--Cheryl Canfield
We must remember that hatred is like acid. It does more damage to the vessel in which it is stored than to the object on which it is poured.--Ann Landers
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.--Stephen Covey
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.--Norman Cousins
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox