quotes about Consequence
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You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences
-- Alija Izetbegovic -
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To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.
-- Amanda SmithSource : Amanda Smith (2014). “The Colored Evangelist - The Story Of The Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith”, p.270, Jazzybee Verlag
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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
-- Anna Letitia BarbauldSource : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.445
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There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.
-- Anne HolmSource : Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics
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Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.
-- Arthur Koestler -
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For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
-- Arthur MachenSource : Arthur Machen (2014). “Spirits of Battle: featuring The Bowmen”, p.5, Courier Corporation
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We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.
-- Arthur Seyss-InquartSource : Speech in Amsterdam on March 12, 1941. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, p. 468, 1997.
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You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
-- Ayn Rand -
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
-- B. F. Skinner -
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Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences
-- B. F. Skinner -
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
-- Benjamin CardozoSource : "In re Rouss, 221 NY 81, 91". 1917.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
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Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.
-- Charles StanleySource : Charles Stanley (2010). “In Step With God: Understanding His Ways and Plans for Your Life”, p.115, Thomas Nelson Inc
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What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.
-- David Coverdale -
Learning is a consequence of thinking.
-- David PerkinsSource : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
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There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.
-- Dennis A. Ross -
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
-- Dorothea Lange -
Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
-- Edith Wharton -
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
-- Edward Tufte -
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
-- Edwin Land -
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers -
If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
-- Evan Rachel Wood -
You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
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Everything has positive and negative consequences.
-- Farrah FawcettSource : "A Serious Farrah Fawcett Takes Control In 'extremities'" by Stephen Farber, www.nytimes.com. 1986.
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... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
-- George Eliot -
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
-- George Orwell -
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Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
-- George S. Patton -
Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.
-- George Steiner -
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- George W. Crane -
Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.
-- George WeigelSource : George Weigel (2015). “Letters to a Young Catholic”, p.46, Basic Books
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
-- Gillian Flynn -
Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
-- Henry Cloud -
Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
-- Henry Cloud -
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You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.
-- Isabelle Holland -
For each of our actions there are only consequences.
-- James Lovelock -
Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
-- James OtisSource : "Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 14". p. 138., en.wikiquote.org. 1818.
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All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.
-- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck -
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
-- Jeff VanderMeer -
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The choices we make can have lasting consequences.
-- Joan Bauer -
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.
-- John Bytheway -
Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.
-- John Galsworthy -
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It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.
-- John W. Gardner -
Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.
-- Jonathan Ive -
Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.
-- Joseph B. Wirthlin -
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Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.
-- Kami Garcia -
We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.
-- Kate Chopin -
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
-- Katherine Anne Porter -
Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
-- Mo Udall -
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To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
-- Nhat Hanh -
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
-- Nikola Tesla -
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
-- Noam Chomsky -
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
-- Oscar Wilde -
Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
-- Paul Valery -
I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences.
-- Pete Seeger -
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I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
-- Peter ToshSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.
-- Robert B. ParkerSource : Robert B. Parker (2013). “A Catskill Eagle (A Spenser Mystery)”, p.171, Hachette UK
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Ideology has consequences.
-- Robert GreenwaldSource : "Koch brothers under attack by leftwing film-maker" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
-- Samuel Smiles -
It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
-- Sarah Dessen -
parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.
-- Stacy Schiff -
Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
-- Stanislaw Lem -
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Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.
-- StarhawkSource : Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.63, Beacon Press
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It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.
-- Susane Colasanti -
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I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.
-- Suzanne Vega -
It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.
-- Suzy Welch -
Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.
-- Ted MallochSource : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
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There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
-- Ti-Grace AtkinsonSource : Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”
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Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences.
-- Tom DeLay -
Consequences don’t just go away. They aren’t suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.
-- Tracie Peterson -
There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
-- Wallace Stegner -
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
-- Wendell Pierce -
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
-- William Godwin -
Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.
-- William Goldman -
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
-- William Ralph Inge -
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The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.
-- Al Gini -
It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.
-- Christopher Strachey -
Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.
-- Dale JamiesonSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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