Quotes About Consequences

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Vices are their own punishment

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

I've never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

If you want the reward, you must also have the punishment; the only way to get out of the punishment is to give up the reward.

How is it that one is born of good parents, receives a good education and becomes a good man, while another comes from besotted parents and ends on the gallows? How do you explain this inequality without implicating God?

We forget what missiles our words are, how much damage we can cause with one thoughtless comment between the coffee and the toast.

keep looking at me like that," he warned, leaning casually into the counter and sipping his coffee. "see what happens." "i'm going to lose my job over you." "i'd give you another one." i snorted. "as what? your sex slave?" "what a provocative suggestion. let's discuss.