Quotes About Consequences For Your Actions

#1. Pain is very useful. It warns you of danger, teaches you of hazards and provides consequences for your actions.

Lisa Gardner

#2. But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. 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

#4. Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.

Charles Murray

#5. 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

#6. We are free to choose our actions, ... but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

Stephen R. Covey

#7. Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Frances Wright

#8. No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. 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

#10. 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?

Joseph Butler

#11. Psychopaths are not crazy; they are fully aware of what they do, and the consequences of those actions.

Hannibal

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

Ryan Braun

#13. 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

#14. While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Stephen R. Covey

#15. If we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions.

John Green

#16. 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

#17. Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Dana Rohrabacher

#18. With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense. By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

Stieg Larsson

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Freedom cannot simply mean doing whatever strikes you at the moment: that way you're a slave to any whim or passing fancy. Real freedom involves control over your life as a whole, learning to make plans and promises and decisions, to take responsibility for your actions' consequences.

Susan Neiman

#23. 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

#24. You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

Noam Chomsky

#25. 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

#26. 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.

Tom Hiddleston

#27. The first step to building resilience is to take responsibility for who you are and for your life. If you're not willing to do that, stop wasting your time reading this letter. The essence of responsibility is the acceptance of the consequences - good and bad - of your actions.

Eric Greitens

#28. Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Iris Murdoch

#29. It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

Zadie Smith

#30. Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

Andrew Denton

#31. There was honor in facing the consequences of one's actions.
Wasn't there?

Brandon Sanderson

#32. We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

Stephen R. Covey

#33. I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Lisa Unger

#34. 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

#35. Relax now. That's the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one's leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions.

Alan Campbell

#36. After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Gail Carriger

#37. Like it or not, sin has consequences. Which is why God lovingly warns us against it. Thankfully, He is merciful and ready to forgive if we ask Him. But that doesn't erase natural consequences of our actions. Cause and effect."
"The Secret of Pembrooke Park.

Julie Klassen

#38. History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Henry A. Kissinger

#39. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.

Neil Gaiman

#40. Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior.

Stephen Covey

#41. 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

#42. I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

Michael Vick

#43. People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

Chad Harbach

#44. If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.

Anthony Horowitz

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. For each of our actions there are only consequences.

James Lovelock

#49. To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Stephen Dobyns

#51. 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

#52. The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the
past. To change your future, alter your decisions today

Unknown

#53. Nice and good are different. Being nice involves immediate actions and immediate consequences - you give water to the thirsty and comfort to the afflicted right here, right now. Being good involves living in the world so that you contribute to the welfare of your fellow human beings.

Charles Murray

#54. The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

Steven Weber