Mary Cassatt Quotes

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

It is always your next move.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

You know the famous quote, sometimes you have to be ready so you don't have to get ready. I do a lot of things that, it's like, off the camera, that a lot of people don't see me do.

Let me be the one To do what is done.

Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

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

Sometimes the choices you make are good and other times it goes the other way. I take full responsibility as coach.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.