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Famous Actions Have Consequences Quotes

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. — Holly Lisle

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions. — Noam Chomsky

Consequence is no coincidence. — Lauryn Hill

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. — Linall Jr. A. L.

actions speak louder than words - Becca Fitzpatrick

actions speak louder than words — Becca Fitzpatrick

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. — Alfred Armand Montapert

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. - Alfred A. Montapert

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. — Alfred A. Montapert

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Action is character. — Unknown

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner

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

Actions lie louder than words. — Carolyn Wells

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. — Mahatma Gandhi

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences. — Robert G. Ingersoll

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. - Robert Green Ingersoll

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Short Actions Have Consequences Quotes

  • Consistent action creates consistent results. — Gary Brecka
  • The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds. — Harold Hayes
  • Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. — Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Do right and risk the consequences. — Sam Houston
  • Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. — James Anthony Froude
  • Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. — Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Every choice you make has an end result. — Zig Ziglar
  • Your action expresses your priorities. — Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action expresses priorities. — Charles A. Garfield
  • No behavior happens in isolation. Each action becomes a cue that triggers the next behavior. — James Clear

Actions Have Consequences Image Quotes

Actions have consequences quote I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Your Actions Have Consequences Quotes

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are. — Sister Souljah

There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things. — Cecelia Ahern

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent. — Malcolm Bradbury

Actions have consequences quote Nothing changes if nothing changes.
Nothing changes if nothing changes.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don't know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete. — Tom Brady

Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back. — Deepak Chopra

All Actions Have Consequences Quotes

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned. — Marianne Williamson

To be a utilitarian means that you judge actions as right or wrong in accordance with whether they have good consequences. So you try to do what will have the best consequences for all of those affected. — Peter Singer

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought. — Kenneth L. Woodward

Actions have consequences quote Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. — Albert Camus

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect. — Tobsha Learner

It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we serve, and we all have an obligation to do what is best for our country. — Karl Rove

Actions have consequences quote Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices. — China Mieville

Action And Consequence Quotes

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable. — Friedrich August von Hayek

The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence. — Gregory Bateson

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Actions have consequences quote We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your a
We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions. — Vivien Leigh

Morality and ethics automatically emerge when we realize the long term consequences of our actions. — Naval Ravikant

It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice. — Dan Millman

Actions have consequences quote In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions. — Matshona Dhliwayo

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. — Mortimer Adler

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. — Marshall Rose

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? — Joseph Butler

Consequences Of Our Actions Quotes

The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence. — John Dufresne

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. — Stephen Covey

Actions have consequences quote Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. — Pliny The Younger

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions. — Neil Gaiman

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account. — J. C. Ryle

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance. — Calvin Coolidge

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions. — Lisa Unger

Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves. — Thomas Metzinger

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. — Thomas Jefferson

Take Responsibility For Your Actions Quotes

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes. — John C. Maxwell

We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice. — Tom Hiddleston

You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions. — Cheryl Ladd

One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life. — Jeanette Jenkins

You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you. — Jack Canfield

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions. — Ron Moody

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it. — Concha Buika

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. — Kelley Armstrong

Face The Consequence Quotes

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty. — Mike Rowe

Don't put your face in chicken feed if you don't want to get pecked by the hens. — Moroccan Proverbs

To cost an eye from the face — Spanish Proverbs

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. — Mahatma Gandhi

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. — David Viscott

Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face. — Xi Jinping

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences. — Al Gore

You can think whatever you want, say whatever you want, and do whatever you want, as long as you are willing to face the consequences. — Joseph M. Marshall III

God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life. — Max Lucado

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences. — Lindsay Lohan

Choice And Consequence Quotes

We didn’t evolve to be healthy, but instead we were selected to have as many offspring as possible under diverse, challenging conditions. As a consequence, we never evolved to make rational choices about what to eat or how to exercise in conditions of abundance and comfort. — Daniel Lieberman

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — J. K. Rowling

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste. — Norma Kamali

We are conscious co-creators in the evolution of life. We have free will. And we have choices. Consequently our success is based on our choices, which are, in turn, totally dependent on our awareness. — Bruce H. Lipton

He ran out from under a leaking roof and sat in the rain. — Afghan Proverbs

I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed. — Jordan Belfort

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable. — Friedrich August von Hayek

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. — Jack Welch

Repercussions Quotes

To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater. — Lenny Bruce

What keeps a person passive and compliant is fear of repercussions, but once you let go of your attachment to things that don’t ultimately matter – money, career, physical safety – you can overcome that fear. — Glenn Greenwald

We have been facing exceptional conditions for more than a year that required vigilance and caution due to the coronavirus which has been affecting the whole world. This required further understanding and patience in dealing with the repercussion of this pandemic. — Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems. — Arthur Erickson

I put myself in a position of authority where if I get judged, I get scrutinized. So if I get caught slipping, than I have to reap the repercussions of it. That is the game I’m in and people will judge you, you just have to get over it. — Damon Dash

As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions, then the next question is okay, what are we going to do about it? — Elizabeth Kolbert

The repercussion of ugliness is endless. — Massimo Vignelli

There comes a moment in every life when a choice must be made between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and darkness. These decisions are made in an instant, but with repercussions that last a lifetime. — Jenna Jameson

I'm a business man and I'm a grown man. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to restructure my life, support my family with this music... I don't have time to deal with the repercussions of breaking somebody's jaw or breaking their nose. — Immortal Technique

In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive. — Mark Boyle

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More Actions Have Consequences Quotes

Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences, we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent? — Franklin Graham

True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences. — Steig Larsson

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

This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions. — William J. Clinton

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28) — Stephen Dobyns

Our societies would be infinitely better if parents and schools taught children that if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. Instead they teach that actions don't have consequences and if you play stupid games we'll feel sorry for you. — Konstantin Kisin

One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out. — Moby

Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than adults. More importantly, it reflects the firm belief that young persons are more susceptible to change, and thus have a greater potential for rehabilitation than adults. — Mary Robinson

Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development , compared to children whose parents use authoritarian methods and punishment. — Simon Baron-Cohen

If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action. — Rumi

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions. — Bill Joy

No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little'. — Michael Grant

The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC. — Judith Curry

I have finally accepted that there are consequences to every action. I earned them and they are rightfully mine. There is no time to make bad decisions. Every step is precious. The definition of living is mine. — Tarryn Fisher

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today. — Winona LaDuke

To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness. — Terry Tempest Williams

Actions have consequences. — Morton Blackwell

I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences. — Irving Kristol

People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions — Albert Bandura

Few actions of consequence in the world have been accomplished without passion. — Jerold Panas

The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be. — Thomas Nagel

A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer meeting, but he never translates his emotions into action. Consequently a sentimentalist is usually callous, self-centred and selfish, because the emotions he likes to have stirred do not cost him anything. — Oswald Chambers

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking. — Richard Dawkins

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life. — Martin E. P. Seligman

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. — George W. Bush

Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees. — Theodor Herzl

What matters is that in this Iraq campaign that we clarify the different points of view. And there are a lot of people in the Democratic Party who believe that the best course of action is to leave Iraq before the job is done. Period. And they're wrong. And the American people have got to understand the consequence of leaving Iraq before the job is done. We're not going to leave Iraq before the job is done and we'll complete the mission in Iraq. — George W. Bush

Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life, for an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations. — Alan Briskin

How can we trace out the links between actions that people take today and really long-term outcomes for humanity - outcomes that stretch out indefinitely into the future? I call this effort macrostrategy - that is, to think about the really big strategic situation for having a positive impact on the long-term future. There's the butterfly effect: A small change in an initial condition could have arbitrarily large consequences. — Nick Bostrom

I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. — Chuck Hagel

I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences. — Barack Obama

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