Quotes about Consequences

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

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.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Sin affects us in six basic ways.

I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.

Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound

Discipline. All is for naught if the organization, specifically leadership, doesn't enforce the values. It may be a subtle reminder, a rebuke, even a warning that includes clear consequences if behavior is not changed.

If we think we are facing an irresistible cosmic force of evil, it will invariably lead to giving in and giving up—usually with very little resistance. If you can convince yourself that you are helpless, you can then stop struggling and just "let it happen." That will seem a great relief—for a while. You can once more be a normal human being. But then you will have to deal with the consequences. And for normal human beings those are very severe.

We do have an invitation to be a part of it, but if we refuse we only hurt ourselves.

Can anyone now seriously believe that if people are only permitted or enabled to do what they want, they will then be happy or more disposed to do what is right?

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.