Top 83 Quotes About Choices And Consequences In Life
#1. Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#2. In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.
Dean Koontz
#3. That is why I taught you how to trade, because that's what life is - a barter of choices and consequences.
Samantha Sotto
#4. As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.
Alexandra York
#5. There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Jack Welch
#6. All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.
Megan Whalen Turner
#7. A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act.
Beem Weeks
#8. It's mind-boggling when you think about how important it is to do what you feel is right. You don't know what you'll be missing when you make a bad choice.
Jay Alton
#9. Many of our efforts to intentionally craft and subsequently force our limited vision on life has more often than not resulted in some degree of cataclysm or schism or division or any number of other things that aren't all that savory.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. I've spent all the years since full of guilt and misery, even though I didn't remember it. I've let it run my thoughts, my plans, my whole life. But the experience doesn't own me. I own it. What I do with it is up to me, just like what Molly does with her death magic is up to her.
Faith Hunter
#12. It would be advisable to realize that we will eventually become whatever it is that we've created. And too often what we've created is a massive mess.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. Define your life,
Define your world,
Define your passions,
Define your goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. Choices and consequences. Although we can make our own choices, we never know what the consequences are going to be behind that decision... But what enjoyment would we get out of life if we had to play everything safe.
Robert Cost
#16. You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. Happiness will never invite you to the party. Happiness simply comes down to a choice to show up each and every day on the world with passion, purpose, place and meaning.
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#18. We labor under the great delusion that we are in control.
Silly humans.
Toni Sorenson
#20. Your life is determined by the sum of the choices that YOU make.
Frank Sonnenberg
#21. Truth always prevails. Both divine and devil are two sides of the same coin. Rather, devil is in the divine and divine is in the devil. It is for us to make a conscious choice, whether we want to be devil or divine. Let us choose good over evil.
Vishwas Chavan
#22. I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them.
Steve Goodier
#23. Life is a choice. Your choices each day determine what outcomes happen in your life. It is by choice, not by chance, that will determine your life. An Unstoppable Life begins by taking responsibility for your choices.
Thomas Narofsky
#24. Over the years I have realized it's not the people who come into your life but the choices they force you to make gives the direction to your life.
Amit Abraham
#26. A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.
Denis Waitley
#27. The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.
Tess Gerritsen
#28. Superheroes are works of fiction - created by individuals to hold up humanity's finest attributes and remind us that the choices we make in life have profound consequences. They also embody some of the qualities we aspire to, and as such, we can learn a great deal from them.
Anonymous
#29. Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?
Samuel Park
#30. Life cannot impose on you that which you aren't willing to accept. Don't let your emotions/feelings push you towards accepting less than what you truly deserve. Believe in yourself, be confident and stay focused. The best lies before and within you...it's all matter of your choice. Choose wisely!
Kemi Sogunle
#31. You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . .
Or while away the days that come by daydreaming . . .
Better still, you can make your dreams your realities.
Ufuoma Apoki
#32. What I wanted to preserve was the turbulent gasp in his voice which lingered with me for days afterward and told me that, if I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest. (p. 109)
Andre Aciman
#33. Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely
Sunday Adelaja
#34. You made a choice - a single choice.
How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#35. Your destiny lies in your hands and can be molded with each passing day by the choices you make
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.
Chris Fabry
#37. We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#38. To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. I can make whatever choices I want in my life, and I will live with the consequences of those choices. But if I want to live a life close to my deepest desires, I have to risk knowing who I really am and have always been. Knowing this, then I can choose.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#40. People say that it's the big decisions that are important ... that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction.
Julie Gittus
#41. Remember, in life, you can't have your cake, eat it too, and then expect a side plate of brownies. Make your choices and live with the consequences. Now - go think about it!
Matthew W. Grant
#42. In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.
-Blue Man
Mitch Albom
#43. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#45. Choices and consequences. Choices and consequences.
Tan Redding
#46. From the point in life when a man/woman is responsible for his/her choices, he/she starts to live a story brought to life by the dreams that have been consciously or subconsciously conceived.
Ufuoma Apoki
#47. If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen
Stewart Stafford
#48. All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I'm having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#49. You know it never ceases to amaze me how people twist your words.I used to et it bother me that I was so misunderstood, but now I realise, I can tell a lot about people by what they CHOOSE to see in me
Karen Gibbs
#50. In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#51. Your choices are made in a moment, and yet their consequences transcend a lifetime.
MJ DeMarco
#52. What you choose today will determine who you are tomorrow.
Tim Fargo
#53. I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.
David Levithan
#54. There's what you're forced to do, there's what you choose, and everything else - most things - are a mix. At best, you'll spend your life trying not to get hurt, but trying not to do the hurting, either. You won't always come through, but it's the best anyone can do. It's the trying I'd call good.
Alexandra Duncan
#55. Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them
Ann Packer
#56. She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.
Nicholas Sparks
#57. We are condemned to be free people, liberated people who must make life-defining decisions. Freedom requires choices and all choices entail value decisions.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#58. Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.
Per Petterson
#59. Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
Karen Salmansohn
#60. Let's live to regret this (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)
Martin Riggs
#61. This life is your canvas; what will you make it?
Jayce O'Neal
#62. How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever? Set sail to sea, but pulled off course by the light of golden treasure.
Metallica
#63. Life is a long road with lots of junctions and every time you chose to go one way, you may just have easily have gone the other. We don't make choices so much as choices are made like a new fashion we slip into without realising.
Chloe Thurlow
#64. Choice is the basis of every part of your existence, but so is fear. The difference is, choice creates movement, where fear limits movement.
Rene Gaudette
#65. This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#66. You have a choice. A life of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.
You choose.
Melissa Nathan
#67. When life happens, you can be either the author of your life or the victim of it. Those are your only two choices - accountable or unaccountable. This may sound harsh, but it's true. Every day we choose one approach or the other, and the consequences follow us forever.
Gary Keller
#68. This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.
Frances Moore Lappe
#70. Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?
Maya Banks
#71. They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.
Louise Penny
#72. I knew that, although my life had been shaped by events out of my control, it was I who had chosen to react to them in the way I had
Lucinda Riley
#73. It came to him that life moved in circles like the ripples radiating from a stone cast into a pool ... Now he was on the outer ring of the last ripple, journeying to fulfill the cycle. Or perhaps the cycle was already complete and he was about to cast another stone.
Elizabeth Chadwick
#74. For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!
Kemi Sogunle
#75. I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.
Abigail Padgett
#76. I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.
Stephen King
#77. 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
#78. I knew I had a choice. Either let you die and have the world blanketed with evil, or save you and make one dark moment for my best friend while the world continues to grow with light.
K. Weikel
#79. Don't you know that everything you do in life has consequences?
Kenneth Eade
#80. Be open about your thoughts, ideas, and desires and you will be right with your decisions.
Auliq Ice
#81. My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#82. Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will you regret the results or rejoice in them?
Rob Liano
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