Consequences Quotes

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. View quote
George Orwell
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. View quote
Norman Cousins
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. View quote
Henry Hazlitt
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Consequences are unpitying. View quote
George Eliot
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
People of Substance may Sin without being expos'd for their stolen Pleasure; but Servants and the Poorer sort of Women have seldom an Opportunity of concealing a Big Belly, or at least the Consequences of it. (Bernard Mandeville)
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. View quote
Michael Jordan
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get. View quote
Robert Sternberg
Everything has positive and negative consequences. View quote
Farrah Fawcett
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. View quote
Philip K. Dick
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. View quote
William James
We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction. View quote
Stephen L. Carter
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. And we're seeing it in our society. (Rick Santorum)
The courts must declare the sense of the law and if they should be disposed exercise will, instead of judgment, the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Roughly speaking, rationality is concerned with the selection of preferred behavior alternatives in terms of some system of values, whereby the consequences of behavior can be evaluated. View quote
Herbert Simon
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might be the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of matériel and supplies? View quote
Chester W. Nimitz