Quotes About Consequences

There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of whatever happens.

Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.

Might have been and could have done, neither worth thinking on,' said Huire, repeating one of their mother's favourite sayings.

I will not give up. It is the right thing to do, no matter the consequences.

You will always harvest what you plant. —Galatians 6:7

Solomon, author of the ancient Hebrew Wisdom Literature, wrote, "The tongue has the power of life and death."2

Author Ambrose Bierce said, "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

Germany's decision to go to war was taken by a small clique with disregard for the consequences of such an awesome step: 'a constitutional monarchy with a collective cabinet responsible to parliament and the public would not have acted in such isolation and ignorance and, for this reason alone, would have decided differently.'[84]

Getting out of trouble is a whole lot more of a hassle than staying out of trouble.

You eat the gut berries, you throw up. Don't eat the gut berries.

It was the one time in my life I did something without thinking it through. People like me, people like you, all we think about is consequences. Practically from the day we're born. And look at our fucking lives.

No one ever went to prison because of bad grammar, but the prisons are full of people who are there because of emotional illiteracy.

Any beings who would destroy another WORLD always destroy themselves first.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

If a man bullies a woman, all the women turn against him. Then the other men mock him because he sleeps alone.

Until we reach the end of time, we don't know whether something's been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.

You asked me for a light for your candle, and I tried to give you the sun, and now you are burned.

La avaricia es la causa de todos los vicios.

Los timadores, al final, acaban siendo ellos mismos timados.

Another Sin of Lechery is to bereave a Maiden of her maidenhead, for he who does so, certainly, casts a Maiden out of the highest degree that exists in this present life, and deprives her of that precious fruit that the Book calls the "Hundred Fruits." I can not say it in any other way in English, but in Latin it is called Centesimus fructus.

For the common proverb says thus, 'He who judges in haste shall soon repent.

Speak we now of wicked counsel, for he who gives wicked counsel is a traitor. He deceives the one who trusted in him, as Achitophel did unto Absalom. But, nevertheless, his wicked counsel is first against himself. For, as says the Wise Man, "Every deceitful liar has this property in himself: that he who would harm another man, he harms himself first.