Quotes About Consequences

Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappiness for themselves and their precious families.

The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.