Mary Engelbreit Quotes

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.

What we prepare for is what we shall get.

I knew that my staying up would not change the result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

Action is called karma. And that's your continuation. When this body disintegrates, you continue on with your actions. It's like the cloud in the sky. When the cloud is no longer in the sky, it hasn't died. The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice.

As the means, so the end.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

You cannot expect to get the effect when you neglect to create the cause.

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

You put junk in, junk comes out. You put good in, good comes out.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

The beginning is the promise of the end.