Quotes about Consequences

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

So we must decide that anyone may entertain contrary opinions about the notions, if he does not mean to uphold anything at variance with faith. If, however, anyone should entertain a false opinion of the notions, knowing or thinking that consequences against the faith would follow, he would lapse into heresy.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

I must bear the consequences as I deserve!