Quotes About Actions Have Consequences

#1. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out or own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometimes we can ask God to help us and He will.

Michael Grant

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

Stephen Dobyns

#3. Actions have consequences. Kids today don't think about that. It's like, 'Hey, wouldn't this be awesome?!' Consequences? What are those?

Theodore Jerome Cohen

#4. Actions have consequences, I have told you that. Why is that difficult for you to understand?

Aleatha Romig

#5. 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

#6. Actions have consequences.

Morton Blackwell

#7. All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

Kenneth L. Woodward

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Chess teaches that actions have consequences and the wise man - or woman - will always look to the endgame ...

Tiffany Reisz

#11. Our thoughts and actions have consequences, all the more reason to be loving and compassionate and not fearful or harmful. They create our destiny and our future.

Brian L. Weiss

#12. Actions have consequences. In actions have them. We set things in motion by what we don't do.

Armistead Maupin

#13. Actions have consequences. The consequences of wealth confiscation by the Federal-Reserve mechanism are now upon us.

Anonymous

#14. 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

#15. Love should not have limits but you have to know that our actions have consequences.

Stephen D. Matthews

#16. 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

#17. Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

Hilary Mantel

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

Gerda Lerner

#19. Even the smallest of our actions can have great consequences.

Robin Sacredfire

#20. 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

#21. our actions have infinite consequences; we have limitless choices, if we open our mind to them. Thus, a shift in imagination brings about a dramatic shift in identity, meaning, value, assumptions and aspirations.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#22. 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

#23. If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#24. If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.

Sharon Salzberg

#25. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; were always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have.

Paulo Coelho

#26. A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

Warren G. Bennis

#27. The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

Barack Obama

#28. Without the sense that individuals are responsible for their own actions, and that there are appropriate consequences to violating society's most basic values, the concepts of morality and right and wrong become meaningless. And then you have no society.

Mark Olshaker

#29. We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

Barbara Jordan

#30. We're still dealing with the consequences of our actions. The people you drag down with you never go away. You have to pay a penance for your sins.

Angie McKeon

#31. But it is the actions of a moment that often have the most permanent of consequences.

Kasey Michaels

#32. At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

Edmund Phelps

#33. The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.

Amy Pascal

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. One-dimensional opinions can create enormous errors in our thoughts, behaviors, and actions. These errors can have unforeseen consequences in our lives and the lives of organizations, communities, and nations.

Debasish Mridha

#36. The consequences of karma are definite: Negative actions always bring about suffering, and positive actions always bring happiness. If you do good, you will have happiness; if you do bad, you yourself suffer.

Dalai Lama XIV

#37. 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

#38. Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

Stieg Larsson

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. They aren't many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions.

Cecelia Ahern

#43. Always evaluate the consequences of your possible actions, because the fact that you have the power to do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should do it.

Ben Tolosa

#44. If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your 21 y/o self? Answer: Think about your actions. They have consequences.

Claire Contreras

#45. 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

#46. I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.

Ryan Braun

#47. You can choose how you want to live. You are free to choose the actions, but not the results. You are free to have your kicks, but not to avoid the kickbacks. You are free to make choices, but not to avoid the consequences.

David Jeremiah

#48. 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

#49. Actions must have consequences.

Babatunde Fashola

#50. I'm going to do the worst possible thing I could do to you and your people - what my grandfather would have done to you. "I'm going to leave you all to suffer the consequences of your own actions.

Terry Goodkind

#51. I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

John Irving

#52. Watch the death of your enemy if you can, for you have caused it. When you have killed, watch the consequences of your actions.

Lilith Saintcrow

#53. We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Greenberg

#54. You can choose to be someone's Angel or choose to be a Troll, either way you will have to deal with the consequences of your actions, good or bad.

L.M. Fields

#55. It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions.

Jerry Hall

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. Actions always have consequences!

Joel Coen

#59. 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