The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. β J. K. Rowling
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. β Gerda Lerner
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences. β Robert G. Ingersoll
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. β Henry Mintzberg
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. β Robert Louis Stevenson
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. β William James
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. β Theodore Kaczynski
Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. β Joseph B. Wirthlin
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality β Ayn Rand
Consequences Image Quotes
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. β Joseph M. Juran
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. β Alfred A. Montapert
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. β Robert Louis Stevenson
Do right and risk the consequences. β Sam Houston
Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that. β Ayrton Senna
Everything you are going through is preparing you for eveyrthing you asked for.
Consequences And Choices 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. β Friedrich August von Hayek
We didnβt 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. β Daniel Lieberman
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. β Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When trust is broken, sorry means nothing.
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. β Dan Millman
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. β 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. β Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Taste is an evolution and refinement of oneβs 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. β 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. β Bruce H. Lipton
He ran out from under a leaking roof and sat in the rain. β 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 youβll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed. β Jordan Belfort
Cause And Effect Quotes
Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. β Muammar al-Gaddafi
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. β Henry Melvill
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. β Ralph Waldo Emerson
Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. β Mary Browne
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. β Brock Yates
High-intensity exercise causes muscles to produce lactate which gets into the brain where it plays a direct role in the production of norepinephrine & serotonin. Analysis of 15 studies found aerobic exercise and particularly high-intensity exercise effectively treat anxiety. β Rhonda Patrick
Transgender medicine increases psychiatric burden of disease, creates side effects on steroids, inflicts surgical complications and sterility, and raises mortality from all causes. Transgender Medicine equals Bad Medicine. No ethical doctor, nurse, or assistant should do this! β Peter A. McCullough
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect. β Thomas Troward
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts. β Ronald Reagan
The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities. β Dan Millman
You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.
Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap... We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law. β Nina Hagen
We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect, we can change the world, one person at a time. β Dolores Cannon
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death. β Joel Fuhrman
No individual raindrop ever consider itself responsible for the flood.
The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny. β Paramahansa Yogananda
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. β Ernest Holmes
Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts. β Rhonda Byrne
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its causes, and its economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often very complicated, by means of a small number of general laws. β Pierre-Simon Laplace
Action And Consequence 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. β Sister Souljah
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. β Gregory Bateson
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. β Vivien Leigh
The hard work puts you where the good luck can find you.
Morality and ethics automatically emerge when we realize the long term consequences of our actions. β Naval Ravikant
You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions. β Matshona Dhliwayo
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question. β Mortimer Adler
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. β 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? β Joseph Butler
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldnβt be. We are our brothersβ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence. β John Dufresne
She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm. β Marcia Muller
Choice And Consequence Quotes
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. β 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. β 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. β Jack Welch
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.
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles. β David Suzuki
Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it. β Nathaniel Branden
You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. β Max Brooks
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. β Tom Hiddleston
I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable. β Walter White
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free. β Melody Beattie
We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions. β Neil Gaiman
Natural Consequences Quotes
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. β Maximilien Robespierre
The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like, consequently, the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to its nature. β Charles F. Haanel
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. β Noam Chomsky
Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences. β Murray Rothbard
Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. β Nikola Tesla
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. β Arnold J. Toynbee
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. β Voltaire
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. β Pierre-Simon Laplace
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future. β Gottfried Leibniz
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. β David Viscott
Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking. β Alfred Adler
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience β Charles Stanley
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power. β Nikita Khrushchev
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you. β Ayn Rand
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition. β William Wilberforce
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States. β King George III
I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States. β George III
The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it. β Muhammad Ali Jinnah
We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. β Henry Cloud
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be. β Frantz Fanon
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people. β Thomas Paine
There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man. β Fatima Jinnah
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. β Nikola Tesla
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. β H. P. Lovecraft
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. β Stanley Milgram
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence. β Janis Joplin
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship. β Klemens Von Metternich
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. β John Ruskin
We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences. β Ban Ki-moon
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole. β Thomas Sowell
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue. β Walter Cronkite
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. β Chris Hadfield
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do β John Ruskin
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. β Mike Rowe
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues. β Thomas Hobbes
The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it. β Thomas Troward
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. β Walter Gropius
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you. β Princess Diana
History shows that you cannot insulate yourself from the consequences of other people having a stronger currency than yours. β Saifedean Ammous
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