Consequence Quote by Norman Cousins

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he…

— Norman Cousins

“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.”

— Adam Smith

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions…

— William Hazlitt

“your habitual thinking and imagery mold, fashion, and create your destiny; for as a man thinketh in his subconscious mind, so is he.”

— Joseph Murphy

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

— B. F. Skinner

“There are always consequences. Nothing occurs without consequences. You must face consequences.”

— Stephen Hunter

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the…

— William Shakespeare

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

One is oneself a fine consequence.

— Henry James

A man governs himself by the dictates of virtue and good sense, who acts without zeal or passion in points that are of no…

— Joseph Addison

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

“The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that…

— Geoffrey Wood