Quotes about Consequences

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.

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.