Consequence Quotes · Page 8

The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences.

— Micah Baldwin

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

— Mitch Albom

He uses common sense to judge not the intentions of an action but its consequences.

— Paulo Coelho

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

— Stephen Covey

Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.

— Yaya Toure

Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

— Adrian Rogers

Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.

— Ernest Holmes

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences…

— Carly Fiorina

If we wait upon God, there is no danger. If we rush on, He must let us see the consequences of it.

— Anonymous

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad,…

— Henry David Thoreau

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and…

— Learned Hand

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

— Gustave de Molinari

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

— Frances Wright

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are…

— Anonymous

My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based…

— Ben Stein

Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no…

— Richelle Mead

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That…

— Andy Andrews

“Everything could come to a crashing end for us if we were caught, but it didn’t matter. Right now, being with him…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences…

— Julie Burchill

A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of…

— Talcott Parsons

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We…

— Susan Faludi

One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by…

— Paul Tillich

Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for…

— Nelson Mandela

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will…

— Anonymous

Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of…

— William Stanley Jevons

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the…

— A.J. Ayer

Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that…

— Barack Obama

The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming…

— Otep Shamaya

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

— Anonymous

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

— Iain Duncan Smith

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Few actions of consequence in the world have been accomplished without passion.

— Jerold Panas

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

— Melody Beattie

to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.

— Bette Lord