Top 94 Action Consequences Quotes
#1. When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#2. Where we go is not determined by where we want to go.
Marty Rubin
#4. Don't just jump into action just because people are taking action. Know and understand the next real action and reaction that will follow the action before you take any action.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#5. 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
#6. The consequences of successful action seemed almost as terrible as the consequences of inaction, and they could be more horrible for those who took the action. A bubble can easily be punctured. But to incise it with a needle so that it subsides gradually is a task of no small delicacy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#7. I suddenly realized it's no coincidence the two middle letters of life are if. For every action we make, there is a reaction. The outcome often beyond our control, fragile and fraught with ruinous consequences. Like a soap bubble made real by a gentle breath only to be taken by it.
Michael Faudet
#8. Between an action and reaction, between a gesture and its consequences, everybody agrees that there is an exact relationship, but not necessarily a proportionate one.
Filippo Bologna
#9. If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
David Brooks
#10. Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.
Barack Obama
#11. Before I make an action, think about the consequences ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.
Gucci Mane
#13. As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.
John Olver
#14. We have to remember that not every action taken to solve a problem will be free of unforeseen consequences. No matter how good our intentions.
Rachel Fischer
#15. 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
#16. How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Winston Churchill
#17. Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Frances Wright
#18. We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. He's weak and ignorant, scared of the way consequences of an action leap away from your control and breed new events, new consequences, until you're led to a place you never dreamed of and would never choose - a knife at the throat.
Ian McEwan
#20. Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.
Ayn Rand
#21. 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
#22. Sometimes a spontaneous action can have all kinds of unforeseen consequences.
Leslie Hachtel
#23. Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.
Cornel West
#24. Another ethical ideal, the utilitarian principle, maintains that the ultimate criterion of an ethical decision is the balance of positive consequences over negative consequences produced by an action.
Philip A. Becnel IV
#25. Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.
Jon D Harrison
#26. Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. In this respect, as in many others, it's like democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible consequences of alternative courses of action.
Carl Sagan
#27. Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden
#28. In a culture where life was short, decisions had to be made in a hurry. You would never have enough time, might never live to see the consequences of a wrong action - or a correct one. On Query, it was different.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#29. That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other.
Michael Lewis
#30. The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
Barack Obama
#31. Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.
Thomas Sowell
#32. So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
Mike Norton
#33. Every action you take, leads to a consequence you face. Choose wisely!
Kemi Sogunle
#34. The only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
Huston Smith
#35. Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.
Marshall Rose
#36. It is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.
Tennessee Celeste Claflin
#37. We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.
Gabrielle Giffords
#38. One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and
then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.
B.R. Ambedkar
#39. The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that we do. Language is a name for our doing: both "what" we do (the name for the action that we characteristically perform) and that which we effect, the act and its consequences.
Judith Butler
#41. The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that
it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions
are positive rather than negative.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#43. Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.
R.A. MacAvoy
#44. There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
J.C. Ryle
#45. 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
#46. Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
Maxwell Maltz
#47. You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
Noam Chomsky
#48. Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Augustus Hare
#49. Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.
Sunday Adelaja
#50. All great choices are made with great risks. You must decide for yourself if the consequences are worth the action you are willing to take.
Cathlin Shahriary
#51. But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.
Henry David Thoreau
#52. I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.
Ryan Braun
#53. A military mindset is objectively analyzing a planned course of action and anticipating the likely consequences before you take that action.
Tulsi Gabbard
#54. Psychopaths are not crazy; they are fully aware of what they do, and the consequences of those actions.
Hannibal
#55. Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
Frances Wright
#56. The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.
John Fowles
#57. I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.
Michael Vick
#59. Not acting is a policy. Not acting is a choice. Not acting brings its own consequences and you have to weight cost of action against cost of inaction. And for many people across the political spectrum the cost of inaction is rising too high.
Liam Fox
#60. Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return,
Geoff Hoon
#61. Every action you take has consequences. Bad habits (negative behavior) produce negative consequences. Successful habits (positive behavior) produce benefits and rewards.
Jack Canfield
#62. In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.
Roland Allen
#63. Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
Khaled Hosseini
#64. It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
connected with you.
Charlotte Bronte
#65. Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#66. Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their
actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to
nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time
finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.
Masaaki Hatsumi
#67. Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.
James Fitzjames Stephen
#68. Power is any action that results in consequences. But real power is action that results in the intended consequences.
Brent Weeks
#69. After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.
Gail Carriger
#70. He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.
Paulo Coelho
#71. Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals.
Hannah Arendt
#72. The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble - the representation of your choice. That's all that you can control. But not the ripples - those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.
Michele Bardsley
#73. We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
Ibn Khaldun
#74. Because everything is interdependent, there are no simple, single causes and effects. Every action creates not just an equal and opposite reaction, but a web of reverberating consequences.
Starhawk
#75. A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because ... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.
William J. Clinton
#76. And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit.
Kenneth Williams
#77. An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
Immanuel Kant
#78. Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.
Brandon Sanderson
#79. The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.
Neil T. Anderson
#80. Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.
Dalai Lama XIV
#81. More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
Mortimer Adler
#82. At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.
Bill O'Reilly
#83. Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#84. We understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.
Sue Grafton
#86. 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
#87. The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.
Brian Tracy
#88. It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.
George Jackson
#90. This, and no other, is justice: - to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#91. Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.
Stephen R. Covey
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.
Andy Andrews
