Alfred A. Montapert Quotes

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake.

People are decisions and actions.

I don't want to mess up my life. You only get one shot. I don't want to let my fans or anybody else down. So, I always think before I act. And as long as I do that, I'll be okay.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

The evidence is in, and you are the verdict.

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.

From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.