Consequence Quotes

Sometimes saying goodbye to the ones you love can be the most appropriate thing to do in order to help them understand there are consequences for each and every choice we make.

~ Raphael Zernoff

You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Ignorance is not bliss. Rather, ignorance is blistering.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everything is connected to everything else, and nothing is without consequence

~ David Huddle

Who are you?No one of consequence.I must know.Get used to disappointment.

~ William Goldman

My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Seek the good in life and life will be good to you.

~ Jenni Young

I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

~ Hans Fallada

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

~ Steven Galloway

After all is said and done, you are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

A little porch light from a distant farmhouse dimmed, feeling alone and unneeded until his smallest spark of illumination snuffed out entirely. The night fell as dark as it was quiet. Meanwhile, every secret eye within the vicinity―from insect to animal to human wanderer―stopped to blink, suddenly blinded. Their guiding light had vanished, extinguishing hope in the hearts of many. That little light had mattered, but he knew it not.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The seeds of any outcome are within thought.

~ Steven Redhead

If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.

~ James C. Dobson

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing.

~ Jane Austen

I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career.

~ H.g. Wells

There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Joining a gang is like sky diving without a parachute. Oh, at first it’s all fun, as you take on gravity in a thrilling and exhilarating free fall towards earth. The truth is, anything that is risky and dangerous always starts out as fun. But the odds are always stacked in gravity’s favor, for you will eventually come face to face with the earth, and mother earth always wins those battles. The same thing can be said about being in a gang.

~ Drexel Deal

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

~ Jude Morgan

If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.

~ James C. Dobson

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example when we suggest that a parent 'pay no attention' to objectionable behavior on the part of his child. If the child's behavior is strong only because it has been reinforced by 'getting a rise out of' the parent, it will disappear when this consequence is no longer forthcoming. (p. 192)

~ B.f. Skinner

For everything you embrace, there is a consequence

~ Sunday Adelaja

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

~ Jules Verne