Consequences
- Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming to consequences of any misfortune.--William James
- 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
- But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences sooner or later.--Lydia M. Child
- Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end pre-exists in the means, the fruit in the seed… You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.--Ralph W. Emerson
- 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
- An individual is the end product of the decisions he has made. He who fails to make decisions, for the consequences of which he is responsible, is not a person. The ego, the self, the personality--call it what you will--comes into being and grows through the process of making responsible decisions.--Thomas S. Szasz
- 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)
- If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.--Criss Jami
- If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.--Shannon L. Alder
- 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 always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.--George Jackson
- It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.--Josiah Stamp
- It will never rain roses; when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.--George Eliot
- Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.--Thomas Henry Huxley ("Animal Automatism")
- Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions.--Gary Ryan Blair
- Master your choices, or become the slave of their consequences.--Michael Rawls
- The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.--Grace Speare
- Ninety-nine per cent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences.--Poul Anderson (Brain Wave)
- No doing without some ruing.--Sigrid Undset (Kristin Lavensdatter: The Bridal Wreath)
- Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain.--Julian P. Johnson
- 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?)
- Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.--Susan B. Anthony
- 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
- We won’t always know whose lives we touched and made better for having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What’s important is that you do care and you act.--Charlotte Lunsford
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.--Bernard Baruch
- Whatever you do, do wisely, and think of the consequences.--Unknown (Gesta Romanorum)
- 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
- You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.--Booker T. Washington (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
- You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.--Tom Shadyac
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