Quotes About Consequences

Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every wild impulse.

Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's.

Here were the real wages of sin. Not hellfire and damnation, but heartbreak.

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. (2) I am of the nature to have ill-health. There is no way to escape having ill-health. (3) I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. (4) All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. (5) My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

If you have a gun, you can shoot one, two, three, five people; but if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions.

Deeds done from bad motives remain everlastingly tainted.

Angry words backfire upon the speaker.

Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.

Unwholesome acts cannot bring wholesome results. The things a fool gains amount to nothing.

Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows. If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows.

A choice to betray myself," he said, "is a choice to go to war.

the simple idea that behaviors drive results.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

he had created a monster.

Such extravagance! Gerhardt complained to Jennie. Such waste! No good can come of anything like that, It will mean want one of these days.

We worship the future, not the past. We worship what is to come, not what has been. We aspire to the consequences of our own acts. We keep before us the image of that which is malleable and growing—of that which we have the power to improve. We worship that very power in ourselves, and the sense of responsibility which lives with it. A child is all of these things. Also …

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old. I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. They are the ground upon which I stand. To

I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

We will receive the fruits of any act we have done, whether wholesome or unwholesome.

All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. I cannot keep anything. I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

Every time we buy or consume something, we may be condoning some form of killing.