Quotes About Consequences

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.

The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life.

Success has ruined many a man.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

So far, then, said Danglars, mentally, all has gone as I would have it. I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue. My only fear is the chance of Dantes being released. But, there, he is in the hands of Justice; and, added he with a smile, she will take her own. So saying, he leaped into a boat, desiring to be rowed on board the Pharaon, where M. Morrel had agreed to meet him.

When Danglars witnessed Napoleon's return to France, he realized the full effect of the blow he had directed against Dantès: his denunciation had been accurate and, like all men with a certain natural aptitude for crime and only average understanding of ordinary life, he described this strange coincidence as 'a decree of Providence'.

When one thinks," said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, "there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him! I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.

Hasty actions are generally bad ones.

Voi donne, viceversa, ben di rado siete tormentate dai rimorsi, giacché ben di rado la decisione origina da voi, le vostre sventure quasi sempre sono il crimine altrui.

the sins of the fathers shall fall upon their children to the third and fourth generation.

that the sins of the fathers shall fall upon their children to the third and fourth generation. Since God himself dictated those words to his prophet, why should I seek to make myself better than God?

War is a distraction: we gain everything by it; we can only lose one thing by it—life—then so much the worse!

verdad es que todas nuestras acciones dejan huellas, las unas sombrías, las otras luminosas, en nuestro pasado! ¡Verdad es también que nuestros pasos en esta vida se asemejan a la marcha del reptil sobre la arena y dejan un surco! ¡Ay!, para muchos este surco es el de sus lágrimas.

Fui un insensato –dijo– en no haberme arrancado el corazón el día que juré vengarme.

crimes, but because we know that crimes have

But in America the sovereignty of the people is neither hidden nor sterile as with some other nations; mores recognize it, and the laws proclaim it; it spreads with freedom and attains unimpeded its ultimate consequences.

But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience, and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the consequences of their errors.

By the choice of the master, or by the will of the slave, it will cease; and in either case great calamities may be expected to ensue.

Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.