Consequence famous quotes

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Choices #Consequence

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert

#Choices #Express Yourself #Consequence

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Half #Theoretical #Consequence

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences
-- Alija Izetbegovic

#Good Intentions #Intention #Consequence

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.
-- Amanda Smith

#Christian #Christian Inspirational #Consequence

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld

#Faith #Consequence

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.
-- Anne Holm

#Faults #Consequence

Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Errors #Generations #Consequence

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.
-- Arthur Machen

#Importance #Introduction #Consequence

We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.
-- Arthur Seyss-Inquart

#Jew #Consequence

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
-- Ayn Rand

#Reality #Consequence

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Probability #Consequence

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences
-- B. F. Skinner

#Behavior #Consequence

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
-- Benjamin Cardozo

#May #Helping #Consequence

Do right. Risk the consequences.
-- Bob Enyart

#Risk #Consequence

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Not Happy #Shareholders #Consequence

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.
-- Charles Stanley

#Consequence

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.
-- David Coverdale

#Thinking #Consequence

Learning is a consequence of thinking.
-- David Perkins

#Thinking #Consequence

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.
-- Dennis A. Ross

#Bigs #Consequence

Everything we do has consequences.
-- Dennis Potter

#Consequence

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
-- Dorothea Lange

#Photography #Photograph #Consequence

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
-- Edith Wharton

#Discovery #Irritated #Consequence

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
-- Edward Tufte

#Curious #Minors #Consequence

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
-- Edwin Land

#Causes #Colour #Consequence

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers

#Life #Scorn #Consequence

If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
-- Evan Rachel Wood

#Want #Extremes #Consequence

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.
-- Ezra Taft Benson

#Decision #Consequence

Everything has positive and negative consequences.
-- Farrah Fawcett

#Negative #Consequence

Consequences are unpitying.
-- George Eliot

#Consequence

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
-- George Eliot

#Rebellion #Defiance #Consequence

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
-- George Orwell

#Consequence

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.
-- George S. Patton

#Duty #Consequence

Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.
-- George Steiner

#Said #Consequence

Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- George W. Crane

#Good Future #Performances #Consequence

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.
-- George Weigel

#Ideas #Consequence

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
-- Gillian Flynn

#Refuse #Consequence

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
-- Henry Cloud

#Pain #Giving #Consequence

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.
-- Henry Cloud

#Painful #Persons #Consequence

One is oneself a fine consequence.
-- Henry James

#Fine #Oneself #Consequence

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Choices #Consequence

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.
-- Isabelle Holland

#Consequence

For each of our actions there are only consequences.
-- James Lovelock

#Our Actions #Action #Consequence

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
-- James Otis

#Determined #I Am Determined #Consequence

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.
-- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

#Real #Observation #Consequence

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

#Silence #Consequence

Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.
-- Jeaniene Frost

#Cost #Consequence

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
-- Jeff VanderMeer

#Dream #Consequence

The choices we make can have lasting consequences.
-- Joan Bauer

#Choices #Lasting #Consequence

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Misery #Folly #Consequence

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.
-- John Bytheway

#Choices #Failing #Consequence

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.
-- John Galsworthy

#Marriage #Consequence

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.
-- John W. Gardner

#Reform #Irony #Consequence

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.
-- Jonathan Ive

#Design #Challenges #Consequence

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.
-- Joseph B. Wirthlin

#Integrity #Mean #Consequence

Elections have consequences.
-- Judd Gregg

#Election #Consequence

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.
-- Kami Garcia

#Thinking #Choices #Consequence

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.
-- Kate Chopin

#Consequence

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
-- Katherine Anne Porter

#Doe #Engagement #Consequence

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.
-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Indecision #Consequence #Inaction

What is of consequence is I did my best.
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Consequence

Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.
-- Mark Twight

#Consequence

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
-- Mo Udall

#Reform #Consequence

Actions have consequences.
-- Morton Blackwell

#Action #Consequence

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Idols #Phrases #Consequence

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

#Action #Consequence #Belonging

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
-- Nikola Tesla

#Enlightenment #Natural #Consequence

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
-- Noam Chomsky

#Action #Responsible #Consequence

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Doe #I Have Learned #Consequence

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Religious #Obedience #Consequence

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
-- Paul Valery

#Positive #Ends #Consequence

I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences.
-- Pete Seeger

#Conclusion #Consequence

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
-- Peter Tosh

#Suffering #Politician #Consequence

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.
-- Robert B. Parker

#Deals #Consequence

Ideology has consequences.
-- Robert Greenwald

#Ideology #Consequence

Do right and risk the consequences.
-- Sam Houston

#Cowboy #Risk #Consequence

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
-- Samuel Smiles

#Train #Consequence

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
-- Sarah Dessen

#Choices #Blame #Consequence

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.
-- Stacy Schiff

#Exercise #Unintended Consequences #Consequence

Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
-- Stanislaw Lem

#Consequence

Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.
-- Starhawk

#Decision #Bears #Consequence

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#Mistake #Knitting #Consequence

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.
-- Stonewall Jackson

#God #Duty #Consequence

You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Consequence

I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.
-- Suzanne Vega

#Timeless #Of Context #Consequence

It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.
-- Suzy Welch

#Choices #Consequence

Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.
-- Ted Malloch

#Honor #Way #Consequence

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
-- Ti-Grace Atkinson

#Brutal #Consequence

Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences.
-- Tom DeLay

#Doe #Consequence

Consequences don’t just go away. They aren’t suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.
-- Tracie Peterson

#Going Away #Given #Consequence

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
-- Wallace Stegner

#Beautiful #Scene #Consequence

Do your best and forget the consequences.
-- Walter Alston

#Forget #Consequence

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Self #True Self #Consequence

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
-- William Godwin

#Passion #Imagination #Consequence

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.
-- William Goldman

#Disappointment #Used #Consequence

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
-- William Ralph Inge

#Punishment #Rewards #Consequence

The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.
-- Al Gini

#Glorious #Consequence

Actions must have consequences.
-- Babatunde Fashola

#Action #Consequence

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.
-- Christopher Strachey

#Clever #Impossible #Consequence

Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.
-- Dale Jamieson

#Virtue #Goodness #Consequence