Quotes About Consequences Of Our Actions

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Kenneth Clarke

#4. We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Neil Gaiman

#5. 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

#6. Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.

Jon D Harrison

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves.

Thomas Metzinger

#9. 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

#10. Living in the moment is great, but there's something uniquely powerful about the contemplative life. I think if we slowed down enough to think about what we say, consider the consequences of our actions and reactions, the world would be a better place.

Nicole Baart

#11. The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

J.K. Rowling

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

Michael Crichton

#15. In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance ... about the separation of self and other ... about the consequences of our actions.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Stephen R. Covey

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

Herman Melville

#22. The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn't be. We are our brothers' keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

John Dufresne

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

Robin Sacredfire

#24. There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

J.C. Ryle

#25. I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

Gena Showalter

#26. Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

Louisa May Alcott

#27. 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

#28. The only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

Huston Smith

#29. To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#30. Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

John Baldoni

#31. Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

Francis Of Assisi

#32. 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

#33. He would look to me to give him consequences for his actions. It was an expectation I'd allowed him to develop. It was also an essential aspect of our relationship dynamic. I wouldn't fail him.

Fabian Black

#34. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

John Green

#35. 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

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

Stephen R. Covey

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

John Green

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

James Lovelock

#39. 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

#40. 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