Consequence Quotes

Consequence Quote of the day

Your destiny is what you make. It's the choices that you make. And for every choice, there's a consequence.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

Do right and risk the consequences.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work of inertia: let it be a reflective perseverance.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.

Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.

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

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.

Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences