Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Consequences

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
James Lane Allen (1849–1925) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Edward Albee (1928–2016) American Playwright

There are no rewards or punishments—only consequences.
William Motter Inge (1913–73) American Playwright, Novelist

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-born British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic

All successful men have agreed in being causationists; they believed that things were not by luck, but by law—that there was not a weak or cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things—the cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins (1912–1990) American Political Journalist

We must remember that hatred is like acid. It does more damage to the vessel in which it is stored than to the object on which it is poured.
Ask Ann Landers (1918–2002) American Advice Columnist

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain—that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German Philosopher

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Jeremy Taylor

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

Every choice carries a consequence. For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor. There are not exceptions. If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?
Gary Ryan Blair

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.
Margaret Atwood (b.1939) Canadian Writer, Poet, Critic

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he’ll get good consequences; if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it.
Harry Browne (1933–2006) American Politician, Investor, Writer

Because right is right, to follow right were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
B. F. Skinner (1904–90) American Psychologist, Social Philosopher, Inventor, Author

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Lydia Maria Child (1802–80) American Abolitionist, Writer

Don’t be misled: no one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important … they do not mean to do harm … they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-born British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

No doing without some ruing.
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) Norwegian Novelist

Every moment of our lives we are either growing or dying—and it’s largely a choice, not fate. Throughout its life cycle, every one of the body’s trillions of cells is driven to grow and improve its ability to use more of its innate yet untapped capacity. Research biologist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, who was twice awarded the Nobel Prize, called this syntropy, which he defined as the “innate drive in living matter to perfect itself”. It turns conventional thinking upside down…As living cells—or as people—there is no staying the same. If we aim for some middle ground or status quo, it’s an illusion—beneath the surface what’s actually happening is we’re dying, not growing. And the goal of a lifetime is continued growth, not adulthood. As Rene Dubos put it, “Genius is childhood recaptured”. For this to happen, studies show that we must recapture—or prevent the loss of—such child-like traits as the ability to learn, to love, to laugh about small things, to leap, to wonder, and to explore. It’s time to rescue ourselves from our grown-up ways before it’s too late.
Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat

Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today’s decisions.
Gary Ryan Blair

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet

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