Quotes About Consequences

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades's underwear?

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

Life is the sum of your choices.

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

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

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

If someone ever asks you to do something for them, do it really bad so you never have to do it again.

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.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.